Brandi Rhodes Quotes

I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color of their skin. Those things don't matter to me. I want someone who's qualified, who has a qualification to character and the integrity to do the things that have to be done to save this world.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

City employees will be hired and promoted because of their abilities - without outside interference.

There was a time where I thought I could only date vegans. I was wrong because I was missing the fact that somebody should be right for me first, instead of just having similar values.

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

Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.

Accomplishments have no color.

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

Everyone - regardless of their background, wealth, race, faith, gender, sexual orientation or age - should be able to fulfil their potential and succeed.

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.

My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job, period.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

We're able to choose our candidate not based on gender or sex or anything else other than their ideas.

NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable.

I would wish we would get to a place of colour-blind casting, where it didn't matter what colour skin you are, where you came from, anybody could play anybody and we didn't judge it.

At RightNow, we employed gays, and we ran a complete meritocracy.

It is accurate that the Walt Disney Company and ESPN are committed to diversity and inclusion. These are long-standing values that drive fundamental fairness while providing us with the widest possible pool of talent to create the smartest and most creative staff. We do not view this as a political stance but as a human stance.

If you are other, you don't think twice about hiring people who are other.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

When it comes to meritocracy and diversity, the symbolic is real. And that means that simple actions that reduce bias, such as blind resume or application screening, are a double win: they reduce implicit bias and they help communicate our commitment to meritocracy.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.