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Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about. -- George W. Bush
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment. -- Ilana Mercer
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives. -- W. Edwards Deming
We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. -- Clarence Thomas
I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation. -- James F. Amos
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. -- Jack Kemp
There's something that people misunderstand about screen quotas. It's not about rejecting or hating other countries' films, but about protecting our domestic film industry. -- Min-sik Choi
Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities. -- Marvin Olasky
I am not in favour of quotas. Just put the best person into the job. It is not about gender; it is about experience, leadership and vision. -- Angela Ahrendts
Here's the point - you're looking at affirmative action, and you're looking at marijuana. You legalize marijuana, no need for quotas, because really, who's gonna wanna work? -- Jon Stewart
I am appreciative of the Bush administration's commitment to fair trade by looking at the facts in this case and ruling affirmatively for the implementation of quotas in this specific category. -- Howard Coble
There is a tendency in all of us to ask for better statistical performance. There is a tendency to impose quotas behind which usually lies imposition of pressure to achieve improved statistics. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. -- Gunter Grass
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas. -- Quentin Bryce
Between the Community Redevelopment Act, requiring banks to make what I would call very weak loans, and specific quotas that the Congress imposed on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, that created the market demand that really led to the subprime phenomenon. -- Wilbur Ross
My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor. -- Chris Bohjalian
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time. -- Tyler Cowen
Hiring quotas reduce efficiency. -- James Cook
Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence. -- James Cook
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas. -- Jasper Fforde
Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas. -- W. Edwards Deming
When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas. -- Dave Ramsey
Diversity is, by definition, discrimination. It leads to things like quotas and racial profiling. -- Mary Kissel
We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements. -- David Willetts
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission) -- Ronald Reagan
The IPL, involving the socialist principle of a salary cap and the protectionist mechanism of quotas, is not perhaps the best example of a market left flourishingly to its own devices and dynamics. -- Gideon Haigh
Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity. -- Walter Block

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