American universities have never considered academic merit…

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

— Thomas Piketty

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

— Jane Jacobs

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather…

— Camille Paglia

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

— Milton Friedman

What [American universities] need, and would much benefit from, is more Marxists, radicals, leftists - all terms conventionally applied to those who fight against…

— Grover Furr

There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do…

— Charlie Munger

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down…

— Sinclair Lewis

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of…

— Charles Krauthammer

I think part of the success which Structuralist or post-Structuralist thought in critical theory has had in literary studies in American universities is due…

— Susan Sontag

We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent,…

— Lord Hailsham

It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We…

— Richard Rodriguez

Kennedy was significantly different than Eisenhower before him, and different from Johnson after him. So those three years were the beginning of a détente…

— Oliver Stone

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

— Paul Achleitner

If you don't have to pay for everything you're providing, why in the world should you cut the cost of it, when it's gonna…

— Rush Limbaugh

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith