Top Tenure Quotes
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann
The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.
Emile Lahoud
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.
Dick Thornburgh
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.
Robert Evans
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.
Kathleen Parker
Dick Thornburgh 
James E. Rogers 
Hubert H. Humphrey 
Bill Gates 
Emile Lahoud 
Eisaku Sato 
Walter Lippmann 
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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann 
61% of people like this quote
The project to settle Palestinians here will be never be approved during my tenure regardless of the price.
Emile Lahoud
57% of people like this quote
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.
Dick Thornburgh
56% of people like this quote
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.
Robert Evans
53% of people like this quote
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.
Kathleen Parker
52% of people like this quote
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Eisaku Sato
48% of people like this quote
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.
James E. Rogers
47% of people like this quote
If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
Bill Gates
45% of people like this quote
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
Hubert H. Humphrey
42% of people like this quote
Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
William Weld
42% of people like this quote