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The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small -- Henry Kissinger
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry A. Kissinger
A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination. -- David Horowitz
Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. -- Gordon Gee
I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science. -- Joe Biden
I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. -- Sara Paretsky
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. -- Julia Bacha
I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. -- Jill Abramson
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. -- Allan Bloom
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university. -- Russell Banks
When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism. -- Jason Chaffetz
Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia. -- William Kirby
After graduating college in 2001 with a B. A. in Political Science and Speech Communications from Texas State University - San Marcos, I realized that my generation and those younger had been given no future and had been maliciously robbed of the knowledge of principles and methods necessary for building one. -- Kesha Rogers
Here's what my CV usually does not say: I was trained as a teacher. My first job lasted less than 60 days. I was an assistant professor at a good college at Delhi University, but I found it very political, very suffocating. At the age of 23, you're not very tolerant of those things. -- Amit Bhatia
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities. -- Gail Collins
I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then. -- Tony Blair
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates. -- Ben Stein
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. -- Johnny Vegas
I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations. -- Meghan Markle
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East. -- Henry A. Kissinger
In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch. -- Douglas Wilder

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