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I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

I looked up affirmative action once in Wikipedia, and it said, 'A measure by which white men are discriminated against,' and I got so mad.

Affirmative action is an effort to include every aspect of society in the decision making.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath.

I think that affirmative action programs can be very important.

Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had a demonstrable effect on discrimination... Affirmative action, by all statistical measures, has been the central ingredient to the creation of the black middle class.

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