Lee Bollinger Quotations

There are few things more precious on any university campus than freedom of thought and expression, ... That is the teaching of the First Amendment, and I believe it should be the principle we live by at Columbia University.

I became concerned that the grids might be misinterpreted,

We do look at that, ... but it doesn't mean those qualifications or traits trump everything else.

In the Bakke decision, the Powell opinion recognized that it's important to think in terms of racial diversity and ethnic diversity,