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Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time. ↗

— William Safire

#appointment #being #columnist #court #like

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial. ↗

— William Safire

#answer #bandied #brought #call #colleague

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#artist #beginner #colors #down #especially

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#barack #barack obama #colorado #delivered #i

Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#area #colorado #counties #created #discrimination

Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger. ↗

— Ken Salazar

#been #colorado #getting #immune #larger

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later. ↗

— Walter Salles

#also #beginning #collectively #i #improvise

I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#done #field #fire #got #growing

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#england #family #i #kid #new