Colleagues Quotes - Page 2

• I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

  Dennis Cardoza

  War, Iraq, Priorities

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• I agree with my colleagues, even the one who just preceded me, that marijuana is probably a dangerous drug, and I would not suggest that we do anything to encourage its use.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Encouragement, Marijuana, Drug

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• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Strong, War, Doors

  "Hardball" Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. July 26, 2006.

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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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• 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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• The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain.

  Peter D. Mitchell

  Lonely, Finals, May

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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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• 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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• I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Australia, Suffering, Three

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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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• 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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• I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

  Alan Dundes

  Religious, Personal Knowledge, Class

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• HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

  David Geffen

  Apathy, Hiv, Growing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Want, Way, Cabinets

  "Is two-state solution viable?". Interview with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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