#league

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

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

#against #colleagues #democrats #door #fact

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#big leagues #got #i #idiot #leagues

I'd like to ask you: what you would prefer us to do? I'd like to ask my colleagues, would any other country act differently? I think the answer is very clear. No one would act differently. ↗

— Silvan Shalom

#answer #any #ask #clear #colleagues

I'm reachable for people, I'm not out of their league. I'm just a normal girl. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#i #just #league #normal #normal girl

You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One. ↗

— Alan Smith

#come #go #league #premier #premier league

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching. ↗

— Steve Spurrier

#coaching #determines #had #how #i

And I have to say, what motivates me every day and I know my Democratic colleagues is to remember that every day 14,000 people get up in the morning with insurance that go to bed at night without it and most of them because they lost their job. ↗

— Debbie Stabenow

#bed #colleagues #day #democratic #every

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#colleagues #consider #cult #find #had

A scientist's aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify. ↗

— Leo Szilard

#clarify #colleagues #discussion #his #persuade