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A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school. -- Robert Evans
But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated. -- Wendell Phillips
I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government. -- William Weld
It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession. -- Edgar Allan Poe
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
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. -- Henry David Thoreau
The political status legislation which emerged in Congress in 1990 and 1991 did not receive the support needed for enactment into law during my tenure as Attorney General. -- Dick Thornburgh
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, Jr.
Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, privatize it, eliminate tenure, and define the working conditions of faculty to something resembling the labor practices of Walmart workers. -- Henry Giroux
During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead. -- John Frohnmayer
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors. -- Thomas Sowell
My father was a university professor and his thing was tenure. Any time I hear a university professor say tenure, I hear the word dinosaur. You're not supposed to be getting tenure. You're supposed to be figuring out how you can teach more students at a better price and more effectively. That's your job. -- Robert Kiyosaki
The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed. -- Alan Dershowitz
The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defence of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day. -- Joseph Story
Derek Jeter has been a great representative of what the Yankees have stood for over the years. He has been a team player who has only cared about winning. He has also been a fine example both on and off the field over his long tenure as a Yankee. It has been a real pleasure to manage him and play alongside him. -- Joe Girardi
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty. -- Alexander Hamilton
Tenure in any department is serious business, because it means, essentially, employment for life. -- Michael Shermer
Baseball has changed dramatically since I began my tenure with the Yankees. -- Joe Torre
I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure. -- Bernie Sanders
The whole purpose of annual reviews is to keep you abreast of whether or not you are fulfilling the requirements of tenure. -- Norman Finkelstein
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
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, Jr.
I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure. -- Natasha Trethewey
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand. -- Tony Judt
President Obama has only had two major policy victories during his tenure: the stimulus package and Obamacare. Both are massively unpopular. The stimulus package launched the Tea Party movement. Obamacare led to the Republican wipeout of 2010. -- Ben Shapiro
When I found out that I had won the MacArthur Fellowship, I had been a professor at Carnegie Mellon for a week. I probably shouldn't be saying this on TV, but I stopped worrying about tenure. -- Luis von Ahn
I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers generally aren't observed in their classrooms, they can do whatever they want in class. -- Steven Levitt
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parents' legacy. -- Norman Finkelstein
Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's your secret?' I said: 'It's pretty simple. Call me any Friday night in my office at 10 o'clock, and I'll tell you.' -- Randy Pausch
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. -- Walter Lippmann
Kennedy was president for only 1,037 days, but during his short tenure, he achieved much. At the Cold War's most dangerous hour, he preserved the peace. He improved relations with the Soviet Union and replaced tension over Berlin with a limited test ban treaty. -- Gretchen Rubin
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field. -- Jane Goodall
Look, you're not going to get me to say that Democrats don't make mistakes. We do. I mentioned two areas - pension reform and seniority and tenure. I've done both - I've advocated for both. I've advocated for - seek for reform as well. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years. -- Karl Rove
Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there. -- Scott Walker
When it comes to brains, size matters. It's not all that matters, of course. Whales and dolphins have brains that are larger than humans', but few of the flippered and fluked set win tenure at Stanford. Our brains are the largest in proportion to body size, and they're also highly sophisticated. -- Seth Shostak
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold. -- Francis Fukuyama
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion. -- Louis Navellier
I'm a tenured professor. But I'd get rid of tenure. -- Francis Fukuyama
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. -- Charles Dudley Warner
It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy. -- Luis SepÃºlveda
I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago. -- Nick Offerman
My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label. -- Arlen Specter
And fragile is thy tenure of this worldStill haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.(To Science) -- George Sterling
The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price. -- Emile Lahoud
I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university. -- Nancy Roman
And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science") -- George Sterling
These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure. -- Andrew Bogut
I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life. -- Alexander McCall Smith
This life is but a brief tenure, one of many perspectives a spirit must experience in the quest for eternity. -- Brian Rathbone
Every actor hopes that the character that they're playing continues to be a challenge throughout their tenure of their show. -- Reshma Shetty
Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust. -- Wendell Phillips
At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you. -- Bill Goldberg
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny. -- Aristotle
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles. -- Nic Pizzolatto
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing it. -- Anthony Eden
In fact, during her [Hillary Clinton] tenure as Secretary of State, total arms exports from the United States in terms of the dollar value, doubled. -- Julian Assange
Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure. -- Baron de Montesquieu
To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure. -- Ban Ki-moon
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
I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. -- Kathleen Parker
I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. -- Daniel Drezner
Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind. -- Gore Vidal
Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different. -- Barack Obama
Learn the lessons of history. Don't let how you feel about your tenure at your organization drive you to make poor investment decisions that could potentially derail a successful retirement. -- Marc Singer
ISIS continues to taunt the United States. They started off on a small area. They are now in 28 countries. Twenty eight countries. Think of it. This is during Hillary Clinton's tenure. -- Donald Trump
I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that would let me avoid the tenure race and full-time teaching. -- Garth Greenwell
The obstacles facing academic economists are formidable, for tenure and professional advancement still depend to a large extent on a willingness to comply with and to work within the tenets of orthodox theory. -- Paul Ormerod
Over my tenure as governor, I have come not only to respect the political muscle of the Federation; I've come to respect the brains. All of us depend on your efforts and energies. -- George W. Bush
It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the firmness or precariousness of the tenure by which he holds it... -- Alexander Hamilton
Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research. -- Clayton Christensen
Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends. -- Sharon Shinn
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. -- Charles Lamb
The hated system of land tenure, so contributory to general unrest in Asia, has been abolished. Every farmer is now accorded the right and dignity of ownership of the land he long has tilled. -- Douglas MacArthur
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
I did love 'Dirty Sexy Money' quite a lot. I loved my tenure at 'Scrubs' quite a lot. 'ER' might have been my favorite guest star thing. 'We Were Soldiers' meant a lot to me. -- Bellamy Young

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