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I have spent my entire adult life trying to make Liberty University the world-class Christian university that was envisioned at its founding.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Liberty University is the world's largest and fastest-growing evangelical university.

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.

The old university attitude of 'publish or perish' has changed. Students and academics are realising that institutions such as Imperial College are also wealth-generators. It is very satisfying to be in a university where you have the freedom to innovate and yet know that there is a path to translate your work into industry.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

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.

Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.