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I am in favor of affirmative action and gay and lesbian rights," he responded. "But I do not support abortion rights.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

A pro-life advocate sees abortion as a sin against God who infuses life at the moment of conception. A pro-choice advocate sees abortion as a decision to be made in accordance with the best scientific opinion as to when the beginning of life, as we know it, occurs.

I do not support abortion rights. Although what I would support in this vexed area is not clear to me.

I should have known better. Pro-life arguments are now based on scientific evidence and the pro-choice arguments are not. That is a cultural, historical fact.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Eighteen months tops, everybody's gone. The accomplishments you've already achieved will fade away like butter in the sun. In the university world, if you pause for a while, and two or three years later, you say we can start again, you're farther back than you were when the whole enterprise began.

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

There is no room at all, in the hiring process, which is heavily scripted, for revealing political and religious orientation.

It is of no help to us that there is an absolute truth of the matter of things because unfortunately, none of us are in a position to say definitively what that is - although we all think that we are.

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