Integrity in research and scholarship is a bedrock principle of MIT. Research misconduct violates this principle and MIT takes any allegations of research misconduct very seriously.

The search committee was impressed with Bill's breadth of knowledge and understanding of the university-government relationship. His interests in research, innovation and science and technology will be great assets to MIT in Washington. We all look forward to working with him.

I think this is a real tribute to their courage. I think that this shows we have an environment here where people are comfortable doing that. The university is very pleased that they did.

We want to protect the integrity of these bids. We don't want there to be any possibility of anyone saying that there was any outside interference or that any bias came into the evaluation.

At the base of our involvement in research lies the trust of American people and the integrity of the scientific exercise.

Ali was actually able to fool some people into thinking that Foreman was actually a white man.