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Charles Vest

"I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress."

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Akshay Vasu

"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."

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Akshay Vasu

"No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government."

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Akshay Vasu

"Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule."

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Akshay Vasu

"I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy."

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Akshay Vasu

"The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice."

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Akshay Vasu

"It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me."

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Akshay Vasu

"If government were a product, selling it would be illegal."

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Akshay Vasu

"Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?"

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Akshay Vasu

"The USA government states that the New Mexico Trinity nuclear bomb site is still highly radioactive and 'harmless'. It is interesting to note in the era of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) that it is USA government policy that radio frequency (RF) and electricity are also 'harmless'."

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Akshay Vasu

"Government is a ruling structured thuggery."

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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
"Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful."

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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."

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Charles Vest
"Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding."

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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
"The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities."

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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
"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."

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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
"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."

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