If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Universities are institutions run by amateurs to train professionals.

Again and again, universities have put a low priority on the very programs and initiatives that are needed most to increase productivity and competitiveness, improve the quality of government, and overcome the problems of illiteracy, miseducation, and unemployment.

Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.