The worst thing about affirmative action is that it encourages reverse discrimination, so-called because it goes in the opposite way of how we naturally discriminate.
- Stephen Colbert
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
- Peter Brimelow
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
- Tammy Bruce
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
- Alan Dershowitz
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
- David Duke
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
- Susan Estrich
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
- Chaka Fattah
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
- Maynard Jackson
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
- James Earl Jones
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich
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 was always racial justice on the cheap.
- Joe Klein
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
- Spike Lee
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
- Eric Liu
I am an affirmative action hire.
- Anna Quindlen
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
- Sonia Sotomayor
However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.
- Thomas Sowell
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
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
- Harold Washington
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
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
- Harold Washington
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.
- Cornel West
- Stephen Colbert
I think Bush has capitulated on affirmative action and government spending. Apart from that, he's OK, I guess. About the same as Howard Dean.
- Peter Brimelow
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
- Tammy Bruce
I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.
- Alan Dershowitz
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.
- David Duke
Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
- Susan Estrich
I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.
- Chaka Fattah
If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?
- Maynard Jackson
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
- James Earl Jones
Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.
- John Kasich
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 was always racial justice on the cheap.
- Joe Klein
There's a lot of Americans, black and white, who think that we've arrived where we need to be and nothing else needs to be done and affirmative action needs to be dismantled.
- Spike Lee
In the end, arguing about affirmative action in selective colleges is like arguing about the size of a spigot while ignoring the pool and the pipeline that feed it. Slots at Duke and Princeton and Cal are finite.
- Eric Liu
I am an affirmative action hire.
- Anna Quindlen
With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
- Sonia Sotomayor
However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.
- Thomas Sowell
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
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
- Harold Washington
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
What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.
- Harold Washington
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they simply want what most people want, to be judged by the quality of their skills, not by the color of their skin. But the black conservatives overlook the fact that affirmative action policies were political responses to the pervasive refusal of most white Americans to judge black Americans on that basis.
- Cornel West
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