Quotes of: Quotas Keyword

It is time for Congress to provide relief for tobacco farmers. Since the 1930's tobacco production has been regulated by a quota system, which required farmers to purchase quota in order to grow tobacco.

Allen Boyd

When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.

Joe Henderson

Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

W. Edwards Deming

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

Leland Ryken

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

Jacques Santer

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

Peter Oliver

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Adam Schiff

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

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

Esther Duflo

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 don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights.

Clarence Thomas

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

Jack Kemp

One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

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

Something Rotten

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

James F. Amos

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

Alphonso Jackson

If you can write each day, do it, and meet a quota. Minimum 350 words a day. A baboon can do 350 words a day. Don’t be shown up by a baboon

James Scott Bell

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

What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

Decreation

[...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the distress pool.

Lover Eternal