Quota Quotations

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

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?

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.

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

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

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.

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.

When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota of capital invested is higher.

Do the American voters know that the unprecedented improvement in their standard of living that the last hundred years brought was the result of the steady rise in the per-head quota of capital invested? Do they realize that every measure leading to capital decumulation jeopardizes their prosperity?

I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.

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

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

Incompetent government embraces hiring quotas, thus furthering their incompetence.

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.

A quota is always something artificial that can only last for a certain period of time.

Value the relationship more than making your quota.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Even when I'm railed at, I get my quota of renown.

I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.

If you are a complainer you might have already spent your HELP quota.

It the Senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion, or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another, because it is not in there.

I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again.