Quota System

Quota System can refer to:

  • Quota System (Royal Navy), a system in place from 1795 to 1815 for manning British naval ships
  • Reservations in India
  • Quota Borda system
  • Racial quota, in hiring minorities
  • Import quota, in trade regulations
  • Ticket quota, in Police departments

Famous quotes containing the words quota and/or system:

    Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President. Why do they not dissolve it themselves,—the union between themselves and the State,—and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury? Do not they stand in the same relation to the State that the State does to the Union? And have not the same reasons prevented the State from resisting the Union which have prevented them from resisting the State?
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It was obviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.
    William Howard Taft (1857–1930)