Quotes about deans (15 Quotes)




    We're always committed to trying to keep our best players at the club, but the size of today's bid coupled with Dean's desire to make the move happen meant that ... we've decided to accept this offer. My thanks to Dean for his contribution and his professionalism during his time at Norwich and wish him all the very best in his future career.

    I have very little confidence that any search firm is going to come up with the kind of individual we need. It's great to find deans of business schools ... but it isn't the same thing with the arts.

    Howard Dean's statement makes it clear that he wants to muzzle America's churches and religious groups from professing what they believe on important issues facing our society.



    Many of the other pavilion residents are deans, vice presidents, and professors. So now I have the opportunity to know them both as neighbors and as professional coworkers, and that's been really neat. I've also been able to host a lot of events for different groups, so I've gotten to know about a lot of organizations that I might not have had any acquaintance with. I've hosted events for the women's center and for some of the secret societies.

    The outside baseball is a public perception of disarray. This isn't a bunch of Democratic Howard Deans out there saying this (about Rumsfeld). This is a bunch of respected people in the military. ... And certainly the evidence that people see is of a lack of success in Iraq.

    Chairman Dean's outrageous comparison today between the United States and Iran is reckless and wrong. By equating the United States of America to an oppressive regime that promotes anti-Semitism, suppresses women and restricts free speech, Howard Dean continues to lower the bar for political discourse in this country. The question for Democrats is, do they stand beside their party chairman and his latest wild-eyed attack.

    I'm very confident about Dick Gephardt's organization in Iowa. Dean's going to need all this help. This moves things into a situation where it's a jump ball, it's an organizational war, and both parties are going to come to the table very well armed. But look, AFSCME has 13,000 members in Iowa. SEIU has 1,200. We've got 50,000 union members in Iowa. Organizationally, we're still in great shape.


    I've taught here 33 years, and during those years, the deans of the larger colleges have become increasingly powerful, especially in their control over undergraduate advising and education. For the central administration to take a role in undergraduate education would be a revolutionary change.

    If Howard Dean's party wants to wage their campaign on angry attacks, that's their prerogative. President Bush and Republicans are going to instead act, and offer the American people solutions that will strengthen our economy and keep us safe.

    Many leading Democrats say they are uneasy about Dean's candidacy for president and are reluctant to cede him the nomination for fear that his combative style and antiwar stance will leave Democrats vulnerable in November. They acknowledge Dean has run a strategically savvy campaign that has made him the candidate to beat. But their worry has been heightened anew, they say, by Dean's statement this week that the capture of Saddam Hussein did not make America safer ... I did not believe the theory I was putting out.

    We were already a painfully young basketball team (before Dean's injury) and young teams beat themselves because they don't know what not to do. Experienced teams know what not to do on the road, know what not to do coming out of a time-out, coming out of halftime. Young teams don't know that.



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