Government Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

Perhaps the only institution more puffed-up and self-important than academia is government.

— Neil Steinberg

It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the…

— Nicholas Stern

It's no surprise that academics in this country have been generally suspicious of business or that in a time like this, when general public…

— James Q. Wilson

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

— Juan Cole

The corporations plainly want academic scholarship to create a web of mystification that will avoid any public awareness of the way in which power…

— Noam Chomsky

We must protect each other against the attacks of those self-appointed watchdogs of patriotism now abroad in the land who irresponsibly pin red labels…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to…

— Stanley Fish

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

— Alan Dershowitz

We've got to move beyond the idea that the public and private sectors are at odds. Government has to lay the groundwork for private…

— Sebastian Pinera

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively…

— Anonymous