Juan Cole Quotes

If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them - and it won’t be you; you can’t afford them.

Juan Cole

• Politicians
• Sale
• Democracies

I think it's really unfortunate that academics have been sidelined in most important policy debates.

Juan Cole

• Side
• Academics
• Debates

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition.

Juan Cole

• Country
• Tricky
• Administered

My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

Juan Cole

• News
• Strategy
• Expertise

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

Juan Cole

• Power
• Change
• Laws

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

Juan Cole

• Conflict
• Middle East
• Specialty

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

Juan Cole

• Party
• Promote
• Professor

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Juan Cole

• Place
• Classroom
• Partisan

I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.

Juan Cole

• Political
• Balance
• Research

I think that there's been an unfortunate tendency for right wing think tanks to dominate these discussions. They often produce very shoddy studies and policy recommendations, which are nevertheless taken very seriously.

Juan Cole

• Policy
• Discussions
• Dominate