Unbiased Selection Quotes

There should be no ‘jobs for the boys’. We ought to be crucified if we … select our constables from the servants of our parliamentary friends.

And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?

If nobody is to be appointed because he is your friend or my friend, then nobody should be appointed because he is any other man's friend. The President himself should exercise the same self denial as other officials.

Political views in the hiring of career attorneys and staff should not be used. If I am asked to do that, I will not allow it.

We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.

Equality of opportunity means the achievers must be allowed to achieve.

At its core, what's amazing about YC is you don't have to work to get in. You don't have to know anyone, so there isn't some type of old boys' club.

Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.

Hillary Clinton should be president not because she's a woman but because she's the best for the job. I don't think that any woman should be asked to vote for someone because she's a woman, and that - because the candidate is a woman.

For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

The natural tendency is to appoint people whose views and outlook are consonant with yours. Resist that tendency. If you appoint someone who holds your views and outlook, then it is possible that one of you is superfluous.

Ending racial discrimination in jury selection can be accomplished only by eliminating peremptory challenges entirely.

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

I don’t care if he is black, blue or green. He is the best man for the job.

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

You don't choose a film because it's made by a woman, you choose it because it's good.