Quotes of: Tenure Keyword

I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure.

Francis Fukuyama

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

Death in a Tenured Position

To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.

James E. Rogers

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

Ben Shapiro

No man [...] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.

Seth Shostak

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences....

Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

Darren Criss

These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.

Andrew Bogut

I've gotta believe that my managing tenure has come to an end here.

Don Cooper

Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show.

Reshma Shetty

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

William Weld

My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

Arlen Specter

Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life.

Michael Shermer

As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

Tom Peters

Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees.

Joe Torre

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Hubert H. Humphrey

The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.

Emile Lahoud

It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.

Eisaku Sato

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

Jack Welch

This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity.

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