Quotas Quotes

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action. - John Roberts

With oil prices this high I can't see OPEC cutting production. It's clear they won't change the quotas. Prices aren't going to fall a lot anytime soon. - Sarah Emerson

With free trade in the offing, it makes no sense for Canada to negotiate new trade barriers, particularly one that involves quotas. Under a quota, Canadian firms would continue to lose market share to suppliers from Europe and elsewhere. And by restricting supplies and causing huge price volatility, quotas would be the worst outcome for American consumers. - Jerry Howard

What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think, vulcanize society. - George W. Bush

We're trying to get (commercial fishermen) out of only fishing 10 days and into quotas, so they can fish whenever they want to. - Rick Leard

We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance. - Michael Rothman

We're completely opposed to ethnic quotas, in the sense it will push people to identify themselves to a particular community. One of the biggest strengths of France is the fact that issues of ethnicity and religiosity are extremely porous -- as you can see with the very mixed population that exists in France. - Dominique Sopo

We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals. - Alan Autry

We have more cargo coming in than last year, largely because of the end of textile and apparel quotas, but it's flowing much more smoothly from the ships to the stores than we saw in 2004. - Erik Autor

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