Tenure Quotes

Tenure Quote of the day

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.

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

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

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.

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.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

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.

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.

It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.

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.

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

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.

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

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.

Amanda is now a tenure-track professor at Yale.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

The reason the Constitution gives judges life tenure is so they can be independent of political pressures and follow the law.

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

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

I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.

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

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.

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.

If you must leave your job after three months - and I recommend staying a year unless you're totally miserable - then downplay the short tenure both in your resume and in interviews.

I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply about. And as anyone who knows me will tell you, I do not back down from tough fights.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

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

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.

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.

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")

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.

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

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.

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.