Malcolm Fraser Quotes

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

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

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

If you have a job in your department that can't be done by a Democrat, then abolish the job.

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.

I would not board a plane piloted by a quota beneficiary or be operated on by a quota doctor.

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.

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the best qualifications and who wants to be a doctor, should be turned down by Oxford University using an interview system more reminiscent of the old school network and the old school tie than justice. It is about time for an end to that old Britain where what matters more are the privileges you are born with, rather than the potential you actually have.

I wasn't treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the 'Development England' side at the age of 13 and I had no extra boundaries just because I was Asian.

I hated Duke, and I hated everything Duke stood for. Schools like Duke didn't recruit players like me.

You're not tapping into the widest possible pool of talent if you're shutting some people out of particular careers.

The best players must play - it does not matter whether they are old or young.

Just like how you find players from different backgrounds in Indian cricket team, our Telugu industry is looking for talent, and it doesn't matter where it comes from.

But at the end of the day, the lottery of birth shouldn't determine your value to the world.

We should judge by talent and work not by community or caste.

If you're choosing somebody that doesn't have the competence, but because it's a young guy, or it's a lady or if it's a man, it's a positive discrimination and I won't push that.

Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.

I think any position in any international organization should be merit-based.

George Karl's son probably wouldn't have made it to the NBA if he wasn't a coach. He would have never got the opportunity.

In order for a person of color to get on a cover of a magazine, they have to do something prolific - winning an Oscar, being the first billionaire, you know, or whatever. I think it's becoming more natural that somebody can get on the cover of a magazine just because they're an amazing person. That's what it should be.

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born and what their parents do, rather than their innate talent and ambition.

It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.