Colleagues Quotes - Page 2

• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Focus, Employment

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

  Francis Crick

  Together, Would Be, Answers

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• It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.

  John Boehner

  Issues, President, Easy

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• I am sure that every one of my colleagues "Democrat, Republican, and Independent" agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  Barbara Boxer

  Independent, Voting, Vote

  Barbara Boxer's statement on her objection to the certification of Ohio's electoral votes, January 6, 2005.

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• As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

  Melissa Bean

  Fighting, Effort, Identity

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• Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.

  Zach Wamp

  Women, Home, August

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• They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.

  Hans Blix

  Fake People, Iraq, Long

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• I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Years, Symphony, Twenties

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• We will ensure that associates continue to possess unsurpassed product knowledge and maintain their dedication to customer service and respect for their colleagues and for the communities in which they work and live.

  Arthur Blank

  Educational, Dedication, Community

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• As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Thinking, Our Actions, Lord

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• If you talk to any of my Democratic colleagues who lost that year, they would tell that gun control was one of the major contributory factors in the loss of their seats.

  John Dingell

  Loss, Gun, Years

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• Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Views, Appreciate

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.

  Lois Capps

  Effort, Challenges, Energy

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• You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.

  Willard Libby

  Honor, Doing You, Individual

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• I am reminded of a colleague who reiterated all my homosexual patients are quite sick - to which I finally replied so are all my heterosexual patients.

  Ernest Van den Haag

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Sick

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• At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?

  Leticia Van de Putte

  Hands, Voice, Males

  "Texas Gov. Calls Special Session, Reigniting Abortion Debate". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. June 27, 2013.

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• Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Anchorman, Jesus, Block

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Giving, Etiquette

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• How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.

  W. H. Auden

  Happiness, Math, Science

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• How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Winning, Paper

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• Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

  Cary Grant

  Inspirational, Respect, Children

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• It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community and take a tough stand for something you believe is right. Because you always want to keep working and live to fight another battle and it might cost you your career.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Believe, Fighting, Careers

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• Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

  David Ogilvy

  President, Vices, Revolution

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• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  Vince Cable

  Believe, Government, Roles

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