This saying is often attributed to Henry Kissinger (my favorite Kissinger
quote is "The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional takes a
little longer"). One reference I found said it is "usually ascribed to
the late Wallace Sayre of Columiba University." The earliest I found in
a Nexis search is N.Y. Times, Jan. 6, 1981: "A variously attributed
saying in higher education is that academic politics are so bitter
because 'so little is at stake.'"
Fred Shapiro
Associate Librarian for Public Services
Lillian Goldman Library
Yale Law School
e-mail: shapiro@minerva.cis.yale.edu
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