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Quotes by James E. Rogers

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
– James E. Rogers
Each of our universities must, within the very near future, embark upon substantial capital campaigns. All the major private universities in the United States have done so and so have most of the major public state institutions. The University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas are at least five years behind.
– James E. Rogers
Higher education is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of Nevada.
– James E. Rogers
How a community supports the arts provides insight into how the community views itself. By promoting vibrancy in the arts, we encourage a positive self-image for our community, our company and our employees. We make everyone's life better by bringing the arts closer to them.
– James E. Rogers
I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
– James E. Rogers
I do not know whether it is my lawyer's love of the first amendment, whether it is my ownership of multiple outlets for news broadcasting or whether I just abhor secrecy, but whatever the reason, I support openness of government for that openness is paramount to the success of democracy.
– James E. Rogers
I have been a resident of Nevada for 52 years. When I moved here, Las Vegas had a little over 22,000 people and Reno was only slightly larger.
– James E. Rogers
I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
– James E. Rogers
If Nevadans define financial success only in terms of how much money they make and accumulate before they draw their last breath, then I tell you our higher education system is condemned to mediocrity.
– James E. Rogers
If we are to attract private investment, if we are to be able to make the legislature feel the moneys from taxpayers are being used properly, we must be ever vigilant of the duty to efficiently use all funds we receive.
– James E. Rogers
Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.
– James E. Rogers
It is far easier to get a contribution to the academic arena of a school when the sports program is at the top of mind of a potential donor. Ask those at Stanford, USC, Notre Dame, Berkeley and Michigan, all first-class academic institutions, how much easier it is to raise funds from a donor when the sports programs are successful.
– James E. Rogers
It is time to enlist the support of the wealthy who have become wealthy because of the two major communities of this state.
– James E. Rogers
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
– James E. Rogers
It took almost 100 years before we freed African-Americans from slavery and another 100 years before we started bringing African-Americans into full participation in our culture. How many African-Americans of incredible potential did we fail and, what marvels did they have at their fingertips that we never discovered?
– James E. Rogers
It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?
– James E. Rogers
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
– James E. Rogers
No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.
– James E. Rogers
No state legislature ever built a great university.
– James E. Rogers
Some think that the words spoken by John Kennedy at his inauguration have no application in Nevada. I do not believe that is true.
– James E. Rogers
The new rule of thumb is that 80% of a president's time must be spent in raising funds for their schools.
– James E. Rogers
The solution to all of Nevada's regential problems is to appoint regents. Right? Not in my opinion.
– James E. Rogers
There are 66 institutions in existence today in recognizable form that were in existence in the year 1530... Two of these institutions are churches - Catholic and Lutheran.
– James E. Rogers
There may be demagogues who will try to sell shortcuts and short-term solutions that create immediate prosperity and economic success for this state, but there are no shortcuts to prosperity that ignore the need for the technical and cultural development higher education brings.
– James E. Rogers
To the extent that tenure supports academic freedom, I support tenure. I want no person or system to have any power, real or apparent, to chill academic freedom.
– James E. Rogers
We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.
– James E. Rogers
When in doubt, one can rarely go wrong by going public.
– James E. Rogers
You may not be aware of a recent survey that showed that if the First Amendment were put to a popular vote today, it would fail by a 60% to 40% vote.
– James E. Rogers