Richard Brodhead Quotations

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Many lives have been touched by this case. It has brought pain and suffering to all involved, and it deeply challenges our ability to balance judgment with compassion. As the legal process unfolds, we must hope that it brings a speedy resolution and that the truth of the events is fully clarified.

She was once described as an action verb disguised as a person,

Museums are places where we're taught to pay attention ... ,

I am aware that police attempted to enter those rooms and I am now about to leave this news conference to learn the whole story.

It has seemed premature to announce, and especially while indictments are still not only out but where there might be more coming, ... what the fate of the team will be. Of course, this is a matter that will be given the gravest consideration at the appropriate time.

While I have urged and do urge everyone to cooperate with this inquiry, unavoidably, we have to look to the Durham police to take the lead in the investigation. Duke does not have the power to compel testimony from citizens of this city, and it lacks access to warrants, DNA records and other confidential information.

While we await the results of the investigation, I remind everyone that under our system of law, people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. One deep value the university is committed to is protecting us all from coercion and assault. An equally central value is that we must not judge each other on the basis of opinion or strong feeling rather than evidence of actual conduct.

What was I to think about what had happened to him?

Bill King could not get enough of Duke,

It's understandable to feel badly when terrible things may have happened at a place you love, and I've heard from many of you who have expressed sadness, anger, outrage, and frustration about the lacrosse situation.

It's disgusting. Racism and its hateful language have no place in this community.

In this painful period of uncertainty, it is clear to me, as it was to the players, that it would be inappropriate to resume the normal schedule of play. Sports have their time and place, but when an issue of this gravity is in question, it is not the time to be playing games.

In times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media or at the hands of individuals.

If you were at a university where the president meted out punishment based on what he reads in the newspaper, it would be a pretty dangerous place.

All that changes the day you open the Nasher,

The court released today a previously sealed warrant, whose contents are sickening and repulsive.

And he taught all of us who know anything about the history of this place most of what we know,