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Charles Vest

"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."

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A.E. Samaan

"The most dangerous thing to the USA population is not North Korea, it is the USA government."

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A.E. Samaan

"Politicians look for interests not people."

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A.E. Samaan

"When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another - except brute, physical force."

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A.E. Samaan

"Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced."

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A.E. Samaan

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet."

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A.E. Samaan

"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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A.E. Samaan

"There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties."

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A.E. Samaan

"Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power."

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A.E. Samaan

"The role of political leadership in any society will remain critical to the socio-economic progression of the world. It is however worrying to see the growing number of people, including the youth, getting into politics for economic gain and not for a cause. This, inter alia, is the contaminated seed and eventual root of chronic corruption because such leadership will always be selfishly seeking gain and enrichment from their roles and offices."

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A.E. Samaan

"Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties."

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Charles Vest
"The thing that we at MIT must understand is the amount of real damage that is being done to us in the fine structure of how research funds are expended."

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Charles Vest
"I would also certainly continue to keep loan repayment interest rates as low as possible. And I would spread the financial aid a little less thinly across all income brackets."

Finance

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Charles Vest
"We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education."

Education

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Charles Vest
"Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public."

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Charles Vest
"Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life."

Education

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Charles Vest
"We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn."

Work

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Charles Vest
"We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index."

Education

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Charles Vest
"Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition."

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Charles Vest
"The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them."

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Charles Vest
"On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do."

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