Action Quote by Jon Stewart

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems.…

— Ronald Reagan

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

— Jack Kemp

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some…

— Quentin Bryce

Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about.

— George W. Bush

I don't want affirmative action - too much affirmative, not enough action.

— Paul Mooney

“Statistics can’t measure equal opportunity, just equal results. The government starts with the assumption that if, say, employment rates diverge from population makeup by…

— Steve Sailer

“the American Government is in fact enforcing a system of employment on the universities under which they are required, under pain of bankruptcy, to…

— Hans Eysenck

Quotas are often about quantity and not quality. I think people should get jobs because they are qualified and they can prove they are…

— Lenny Henry

Let's be clear about one thing everyone should know: Affirmative action is constitutional.

— Maya Wiley

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most…

— Cornel West

Without application of the mind; there is no drive for taking affirmative action.

— Joseph Mercado