10 Quotes by Fred Siegel

What he represents is that part of Giuliani's legacy that has become permanent, on crime and welfare,

He wasn't on top of this. He sort of farmed this out and he didn't stay on top of it.

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

The Achilles heel of academics is their status anxiety. The only way to attack them is with mockery.

The question is, what happened between 10 o'clock this morning and 12:30? The statesmanlike option was there last night.

Abolishing tenure could just turn the decision making over to deans who come out of today's orthodox academic world. That would mean that few remaining non-leftists would get pushed out.

The new Tammany was wrapped in a cloth of sanctimony. It professed to represent the interests of the poor. Protected in part by civil service and union power, it was immune to elections, and rather than being subject to scrutiny by the press it was mostly treated as a sacred cow.

Instead of doing a mass communications effort, we're really going after the niches. We talk to those interested in discreet ways that are relevant to those individuals.

I could see it was a system that needed improvement.