Common man Quote by H. W. Brands

Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics! They have…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both…

— Russell Baker

I'm not impressed by people's degrees. Harvard doesn't impress me, Yale doesn't impress me, Columbia doesn't impress me.

— Sean Hannity

“Of Yale alumni who had reached their forties by 2000, only 56 percent of the women remained in the workforce, compared with 90 percent…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where…

— Michael N. Castle

Americans don't realize how difficult it is to create a Harvard.

— Anand Giridharadas

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain…

— Matt Taibbi

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

— George W. Bush

“All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all…

— Theodore H. White

Yale students want to impress you with what they're doing. Harvard students want to impress you with how cool they look while doing it.

— Alexandra Petri

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus,…

— David Ignatius