Gordon Gee

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward. ”

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives. ”

I believe that it is higher education's purpose and calling to keep open the door to the American dream. ”

You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university. ”

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers. ”

Intellectual curiosity drove Einstein to some of the world's most important discoveries. ”

I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed. ”

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead. ”

Being president of a major public university is the most political nonpolitical office around. ”

Everyone wrote our obituary but us and the coaches and the kids who stayed with us. The obit was, 'Vanderbilt will have to leave the Southeastern Conference. All the coaches are leaving, and all the students are transferring.' ”