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“When it came to the 2000 election, 84 percent of Ivy League faculty voted for Al Gore, 6 percent for Ralph Nader and 9 percent for George Bush. In the general electorate, the vote was split at 48 percent for Gore and Bush, and 3 percent for Nader.”

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Author:Walter E. Williams

“I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.”

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Author:Richard Land

“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”

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“I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.”

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Author:Robert Evans

“There's something retro about your persona. It's like the pre-World War II generation of reporters - those unpretentious, working-class guys who hung around saloons and used rough language. Now they've all been replaced with these effete Ivy League elitists who swarm over the current media. Nerds - utterly dull and insipid.”

“ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.”

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Book:Generation Kill

Source: Generation Kill

“My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.”

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Author:Troian Bellisario

“If the Ivy League was the breeding ground for the elites of the American Century, Stanford is the farm system for Silicon Valley.”

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Author:Ken Auletta

“Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.”

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Author:Paul Giamatti

“For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.”