Public Universities Quotes

#1. A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on.

Robert Reich

#2. The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. It's no secret that our nation's public universities want to transform American young people into a bunch of hyper-sensitive, intellectually-neutered cream puffs.

Todd Starnes

#4. Much of what's called 'public' is increasingly a private good paid for by users - ever-higher tolls on public highways and public bridges, higher tuitions at so-called public universities, higher admission fees at public parks and public museums.

Robert Reich

#5. When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Robert Stacy McCain

#6. I believe that the future is determined by the great public universities. They educate 80 percent of the students and make the American Dream available.

Gordon Gee

#7. The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.

Aldous Huxley

#8. I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

Bill Ayers

#9. With the corporatization and privatization of higher education, it is increasingly more difficult for colleges and universities to expand and deepen democratic public life, produce engaged critical citizens, and operate as democratic public spheres.

Henry Giroux

#10. In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

#11. The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to understand that when students went to universities, they would become cosmopolitan. They were leaving their neighborhoods.

Richard Rodriguez

#12. I think liberal art faculties at major universities have views that are not very sound, at least on public policy issues - they may know a lot of French however.

Charlie Munger

#13. The film industry is so fickle about financing, and it's so difficult to get movies made.

Chloe Sevigny

#14. I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

#15. I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#16. As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.

Bernie Sanders

#17. Almost all the students who make it to Caltech, one of the best scientific universities in the world, come from public schools. So it can be done.

Thomas L. Friedman

#18. Indeed, there is an attack against things Christian in America. We see it in the movies, on TV, in the schools, in the universities, in the public arena, in the courts, and even within some church circles.

D. James Kennedy

#19. Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

Charles Vest

#20. I had been educated with free scholarships. I went to nine different universities, always at public expense, and when you have that experience, you are almost obligated to give it back. It's as simple as that.

James A. Michener

#21. When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

Dave Barry

#22. No institutions in modern society are better equipped to catalyze the necessary transition to a sustainable world than colleges and universities. They have access to the leaders of tomorrow and the leaders of today. What they do matters to the wider public.

David W. Orr

#23. Anytime something bad happens to a woman close to me, it's how I think. I have a daughter.

Courtney Summers

#24. Do we substantially increase military spending and prepare for endless war in the middle-east, or do we make college affordable for all Americans, regardless of income. My answer: I will soon be introducing legislation that will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

#25. Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.

Henry Giroux

#26. The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

Nana Mouskouri

#27. I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

William Lyon Phelps

#28. My whole world started to tilt. I could feel it, sliding ever so slightly off center.

Leslie Deaton

#29. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

Benjamin Whorf

#30. The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you.

Pope Francis

#31. We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

Bernie Sanders

#32. Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.

Walter Annenberg

#33. A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.

Charles Babbage

#34. Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

Holly Sklar

#35. Metaphors: knowledge existing in several states simultaneously and without contradiction.

G. Willow Wilson

#36. In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

B. Carroll Reece