Columbia Quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a…

— Bella Abzug

I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college.…

— Billy Graham

It has been my privilege on various occasions to converse with presidents of the United States and important men in other governments. At the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

— Mark Twain

I'm the face of the B.C. alumni organization.

— Jared Dudley

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

— Audre Lorde

I was honored when [Donald Trump] asked me to chair the transition effort.

— Mike Pence

I've had the honor of speaking at many commencements.

— Kamala Harris

I was the student body president three years in a row.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

In the past we greeted people by removing our hat and now we greet by removing our ear-phones

— Shubhz

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

— Roger Zelazny

In high school I was president of the Student Council, and I ended up doing a lot of speeches. After you do a few…

— Osric Chau