John Kasich Quotes

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

You can’t be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval of affirmative action.… We have to prove ourselves and we have to work hard doing it.

The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Without affirmative action I could never have attended Yale University. Without affirmative action Barack Obama would never have gotten into Colombia and Harvard Law school

If affirmative action is quotas, then I am not for it. If it means equal opportunity, then I say support that. But to ask for special treatment because of race, that bothers me...

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

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

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

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.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

I don't know what this definition of affirmative action is for some.

Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.

Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.

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.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Affirmative action is under attack today, not because it has failed, but because it succeeded.

Equality ... is the result of human organization.... We are not born equal.

I believe in individual freedom, equal opportunity at the starting line without a preordained order of finish.