I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on…

Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it.

— Priyamvada Natarajan

We want to be absolutely clear to the people what we are about. No backroom deals whatsoever and we're not going to be held…

— John McDonnell

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

— Ludwig von Mises

I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may…

— Alexander Mackenzie

Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole…

— Thomas Sowell

Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield…

— Ben Shapiro

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths…

— Horace Mann

I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got…

— Paul Lansky

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be…

— Sharon Shinn

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it,…

— Henry Giroux

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number…

— Robert Evans

But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of…

— Antonio Villaraigosa

In five years of my previous tenure, the treasury was never shut for one day.

— Amarinder Singh

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is…

— Learned Hand

The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure.

— Norman Finkelstein