Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
With my first few books, I was aiming at an academic audience, basically, to get tenure. You can presuppose a certain amount… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of… — Daniel Drezner Copy Share Image
It's not that unusual for presidents to take strong positions on cases decided by the court. But you know, Lesley, that's why… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
How funny is it that so many professors labeled Tea Partiers as terrorists, while kissing the asses of real, bona fide terrorists?… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you look at the polling data, long before anyone had thought about Iraq, it was the [George W.] Bush Administration's decision… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
To become a token woman - whether you win the Nobel Prize or merely get tenure at the cost of denying your… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It's a good thing that we're protected by tenure and academic freedom, but we should realize that it creates a risk of… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply… — Bev Perdue Copy Share Image
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Joining the Bipartisan Policy Center is a natural extension of my efforts to achieve results throughout my tenure in Congress, and it… — Olympia Snowe Copy Share Image
I do worry a lot about the time it takes for people to get a PhD, about the difficulty of finding employment,… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
I hate tenure. Tenure allows teachers to put their feet up on the desk and possibly have a job forever. That's why… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy,… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
You know who has tenure? The pope has tenure. The Queen of England has tenure. So does Fidel and the communists -… — Ira Carmen Copy Share Image
Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension… — Antonio Villaraigosa Copy Share Image
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod,… — George Sterling Copy Share Image
People had their image of what a cowboy was, ... A lot of it was perpetuated by the media presentations of the… — Philip Roberts Copy Share Image
I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact… — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Harvard is famous for being an 'absorbing state' for faculty with almost no one leaving it for another institution, which is why… — Gita Gopinath Copy Share Image