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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.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

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.

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.