Ronald Reagan actually said...

Mr. Burt has served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs since 1983.

In response to your mandate, our administration has worked to return the civil rights laws to their original meaning—to prevent discriminati...

That's the vision our entire administration is committed to—a society that keeps faith with the promise of our Declaration of Independence.

Quotas deny jobs to many who would have gotten them otherwise, but who weren't born a specified race or sex.