Colleagues Quotes

‘I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.’ – Josie Loren

‘A good life depends on the strength of our relationships with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues and strangers.’ – David Lammy

‘At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.’ – Daniel Nathans

‘To be honored by your peers is incredibly gratifying and I am so thankful to my colleagues across the league for this recognition. I’m also grateful to the talented and dedicated coaching staff I work with every day in Toronto. To be recognized with an award that bears Michael H. Goldberg’s name is very special.’ – Dwane Casey

‘A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, ‘He’s a great player’, because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to go forward. It is someone who, when a team does not do well, becomes one of the leaders.’ – Pele

‘You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.’ – William H. McRaven

‘For me, the team always comes first, and without the help of my colleagues, I am nothing.’ – Ruben Neves

‘I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.’ – John Kennedy

‘Colleagues are a wonderful thing – but mentors, that’s where the real work gets done.’ – Junot Diaz

‘Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.’ – Cate Blanchett

‘I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.’ – Gyorgy Ligeti

‘Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.’ – Barry Goldwater

‘All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.’ – John C. Maxwell

‘One of the very rewarding aspects of my work has been the interaction with a superb group of colleagues and friends in the atmospheric sciences community.’ – Mario J. Molina

‘The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn’t able to succeed at those institutions.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don’t trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships – people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.’ – Adam Grant

‘With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.’ – Robert Greene

‘I am blessed to count among my friends and colleagues people who are very thoughtful and who deeply care about our country.’ – Mark Goulston

‘It is a sad but undeniable reality that people have died in the line of duty since the earliest days of the United Nations. The first was Ole Bakke, a Norwegian member of the United Nations guard detachment, shot and killed in Palestine in 1948. The toll since then has included colleagues at all levels.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Need a Black face to criticize other Black colleagues, Black Lives Matter, heck even protests against Trump’s Muslim ban and parrot the inherently racist ‘stick to sports’ mantra? Sage Steele is ready and willing.’ – Jason Johnson

‘A scientist’s aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.’ – Leo Szilard

‘People often confuse a growth mindset with being flexible or open-minded or with having a positive outlook – qualities they believe they’ve simply always had. My colleagues and I call this a false growth mindset.’ – Carol S. Dweck

‘Teaching is a profession in which capacity building should occur at every stage of the career – novices working with accomplished colleagues, skillful teachers sharing their craft, and opportunities for teacher leadership.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘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

‘My colleagues and I have gone in the footsteps of our predecessors since the very first day we were called by our people to care for their future. We went any place, we looked for any avenue, we made any effort to bring about negotiations between Israel and its neighbors, negotiations without which peace remains an abstract desire.’ – Menachem Begin

‘I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘When I first moved to New York, I had some colleagues who said I should be my straightest self – whatever that means – when I went into casting offices, but I didn’t want to put on an act of what I thought was heterosexual. I just wanted to be myself, and I’m very grateful because I feel like I’ve been embraced for that.’ – Colman Domingo

‘I think some of my colleagues’ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can’t say in real life with friends and work colleagues – things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.’ – Christopher Poole

‘And time for reflection with colleagues is for me a lifesaver; it is not just a nice thing to do if you have the time. It is the only way you can survive.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I’m not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.’ – Jack Ma

‘The Nobel Prize is given as a personal award but it also honors the field of research in which I have worked and it also honors my students and colleagues.’ – Robert Hofstadter

‘Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.’ – Jon Secada

‘I have been described by one of my colleagues as a ‘militant agnostic’ with my tagline, ‘I don’t know, and neither do you!’ I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.’ – Brian Schmidt

‘When my colleagues were back at home eating I’d still be practising and Ronaldo is the same, a real hard worker. I’m not a Barcelona fan but I very much admire Lionel Messi. I haven’t seen him train. I know Ronaldo a lot better.’ – Eusebio

‘I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled – all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you – stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students.’ – James Tobin

‘My early colleagues and myself helped create the life styles of Americans and, by osmosis, of the rest of the world. I found it difficult to reconcile success with humility. I tried it first, but it meant avoiding the very essence of my career – total exhilaration and the ecstasy of creativity.’ – Raymond Loewy

‘I continually ask myself if a decision I’m about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It’s actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.’ – Mike Gallagher

‘With the woke progressive fire hose spraying on and on and on, my Republican colleagues are constantly saying they want to stop the Democrats. But when the time comes to stop them, it’s business as usual for some.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘It’s a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.’ – Alan Alda

‘Most of my colleagues have been insulated in Indian music alone – they did not think of the world beyond what they knew – but I always did and still do.’ – Asha Bhosle

‘I get very envious of my general news colleagues who are always being handed sexy new stuff like global warming, China, and Donald Trump, while my sports colleagues and I must be eternally satisfied with the same old home-court advantage, soccer, and momentum.’ – Frank Deford

‘The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.’ – Adam Grant

‘For the government, there is the frustration of not being a full part of the anti-Isis coalition. For ministers to have their position restrained by our parliament is an embarrassment with their international colleagues.’ – Crispin Blunt

‘What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.’ – Peter Landesman

‘In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘The evasion of justice within academia is all the more infuriating because the course of sexual harassment is so predictable. Since I started writing about women and science, my female colleagues have been moved to share their stories with me; my inbox is an inadvertent clearinghouse for unsolicited love notes.’ – Hope Jahren

‘I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.’ – Carol Moseley Braun

‘My colleagues think I’m crazy but my motto is, never miss a day. If we’re taping in L.A., I’ll get up at 2 a.m. to go run. If I’m on the road and the hotel doesn’t have a gym, I’ll find a 24-hour gym. I don’t know how to exist without my workouts.’ – Skip Bayless

‘I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.’ – Frederick Sanger

‘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

‘You don’t have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren’t there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.’ – Tony McCoy

‘The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they’ve gone to fight to tell the story.’ – Charlie Rose

‘As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.’ – Joshua Foer

‘I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I’ve never tried that.’ – Bernhard Schlink

‘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

‘My colleagues went on the Internet, went on Facebook, and they found it helpful, and they persuaded me that I should try, so I did. It’s quite fun provided you keep it in balance and… from time to time slip in a serious message.’ – Lee Hsien Loong

‘Some of my colleagues argue that by further curtailing our Second Amendment rights, they can enhance public safety. Fine, the burden of proof is on them.’ – John Kennedy

‘I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn’t even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.’ – Lee Byung-hun

‘My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it’s intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.’ – John C. Mather

‘I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!’ – Belinda Johnson

‘I think as a leader, as a captain, it’s important to back your instincts, whatever you feel. Yes, it is important to take advice from your colleagues, but in the end what your instincts tell you, you should back that.’ – Ajinkya Rahane

‘So I submit to my colleagues here today that hydrogen is not as far away as we think it is.’ – Bob Inglis

‘I find it difficult to believe that God would want us to strip the courts of their powers to interpret the laws of this land, albeit with the divergent opinions. I shudder that my colleagues do not understand the dynamics of the Federal judiciary.’ – Alcee Hastings

‘Remember: If you don’t schmooze, you lose. Used wisely, a bit of chitchat helps create a personal connection with your boss and colleagues.’ – Chris Gardner

‘Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should – to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never belonged to any camp and have no friends in the industry. Most of them will pay lip service, but when it comes to doing, they tend to shy away.’ – Sunny Deol

‘Finding your soul begins by discovering our ability to listen! Alternatively, by sharing a smile, a laugh and just by being human to everyone – from friends, colleagues, family, and especially strangers, including those who are not from the same station in life as you.’ – Om Malik

‘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

‘My Catholic faith guides me and imbues the principles I hold in protecting and preserving God’s creation. As a U.S. senator, I strive to bring this faith to my work and allow these principles to guide me as I consider the best way to influence public policy and create laws with my colleagues.’ – Catherine Cortez-Masto

‘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

‘I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.’ – Daniel Day-Lewis

‘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

‘I don’t think I’m a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.’ – Jack Ma

‘The lack of health care coverage has remained very important to me during my time in Congress and as a member of the House Subcommittee on Health, I am working hard with my colleagues to correct these inequalities.’ – Paul Gillmor

‘To all my colleagues at the Department of Justice, let me say that it is a privilege to serve with you. I will do all I can to support your work in advancing the cause of justice.’ – William Barr

‘In my very first Cabinet meeting, I told my colleagues we must take on corruption, lawlessness, casteism, and the politics of appeasement.’ – Yogi Adityanath

‘I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don’t fret about that at all; I’m quite happy about that.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.’ – Rollo May

‘The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms – brainstorms, that is.’ – Miguel Nicolelis

‘I was growing up in a communist time, especially, and the other music, the western music, was banned, so on radio half of the music was Chopin. So my colleagues and I were a little bit allergic to this music because it was everywhere – everywhere!’ – Krzysztof Penderecki

‘I mean, I’m married to an academic oncologist, a cancer doctor, okay? He and his colleagues are some of the most conscientious, devoted, hard-working, conventional bourgeois people in the known universe. They are the people that keep this society going.’ – Amy Wax

‘The Negro problem, like all other political problems, is fundamentally a moral issue. This is realism, not idealism. Those of my colleagues who believe that they are particularly ‘hard boiled’ because they overlook the fact that human beings are struggling for their consciences are simply unrealistic.’ – Gunnar Myrdal

‘In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.’ – Felix Bloch

‘In 1986, Microsoft and Oracle went public within a day of each other, and I recall telling one of my colleagues that the software business will become big. So I started working with software companies in the mid-’80s and never turned back.’ – Safra A. Catz

‘Military nurses have worked alongside their NHS colleagues across the United Kingdom, using the skills learnt in conflict in the battle against COVID.’ – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

‘Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.’ – Robert K. Greenleaf

‘If you don’t know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.’ – Malcolm Forbes

‘The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don’t.’ – Byron Dorgan

‘I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved.’ – Ted Stevens

‘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

‘Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.’ – Pat Roberts

‘I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.’ – Kenneth Clarke

‘But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters.’ – David Price

‘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

‘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

‘I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it’ll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.’ – Christiane Amanpour

‘Ah, the pleasure, the joy – a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying ‘it’ll never happen’, only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.’ – Kamal Ahmed

‘Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.’ – Hanoi Hannah

‘When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don’t have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.’ – Elmer Bernstein

‘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

‘My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.’ – Frank Press

‘What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion’s share of it by simply adding it to the national debt.’ – John Spratt

‘Amtrak is extremely important to the economy of Southern Illinois and I will continue to work with state and local leaders and my colleagues in Congress to secure the necessary funding to maintain full service.’ – Jerry Costello

‘I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.’ – Alfred Hershey

‘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

‘I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.’ – Chaka Fattah

‘Like my colleagues, I did about 10 to 15 town hall meetings on this issue; and what I found is people came with a sincere interest to learn, a sincere interest to cut through the rhetoric and understand how this Medicare bill impacts them in their daily lives.’ – Chris Chocola

‘The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.’ – Dennis Ritchie

‘Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.’ – Jesse James Garrett

‘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

‘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

‘It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.’ – Conrad Hall

‘I’m not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn’t know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.’ – Bob Woodward

‘I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.’ – Bob Graham

‘The world’s a small place and people are watching; and, you know, somebody disappears, the family knows and their colleagues know, and so eventually, these things do get out.’ – Jane Mayer

‘I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.’ – Jeff Miller

‘Since Michael died I think I’ve worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They’re the people who get you through it… It’s no good to be on your own.’ – Judi Dench

‘Having said that, I enjoyed every minute of my time and I got a degree of job satisfaction which I am sure was far greater than the majority of my colleagues.’ – Len G. Murray

‘I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues.’ – Len G. Murray

‘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

‘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

‘I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity.’ – Murray Gell-Mann

‘Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long – napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.’ – Leverett Saltonstall

‘Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.’ – Samuel E. Morison

‘And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it’s very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.’ – Michael Tilson Thomas

‘Privatization of the state-owned economy is not yet on the agenda. We cannot do it immediately; my colleagues would not agree to it. But we must put all forms of ownership on an equal footing immediately and let different types of ownership compete with the state firms.’ – Vaclav Klaus

‘One works in one’s laboratory – one’s chaotic laboratory – with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do – then all this happens! It is overwhelming.’ – Haldan Keffer Hartline

‘This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.’ – Bob Ney

‘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

‘My colleagues, while it is good that the Nation is finally focused on the critical issue of securing our ports, our rhetoric and our passion about Dubai must be matched by the funding necessary to keep our ports and our citizens safe.’ – Allyson Schwartz

‘In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.’ – Jacky Ickx

‘We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress.’ – Ron Lewis

‘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

‘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

‘We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.’ – Russ Carnahan

‘Mr. Speaker, the Delaware River deepening project is important for my constituents, for our region and for the entire nation. I trust that, when they examine the facts about it, every one of my colleagues will join me in supporting it.’ – Robert Brady

‘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

‘At a time when the insurgents are saying that time is working against them, my Democratic colleagues are introducing a measure to set a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq that will undercut the momentum that the insurgents themselves say we have built in Iraq.’ – Kit Bond

‘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

‘In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.’ – Ernest Lawrence

‘HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.’ – David Geffen

‘We’ve lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region.’ – John Hewson

‘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

‘Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting.’ – Earl Blumenauer

‘Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today’s legislation and America’s middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.’ – Ellen Tauscher

‘Some people work hard in this business and become really popular, really big stars but they never receive an award from within the business. Somehow, when your colleagues and friends believe in you to the point of handing you an award it means so much more.’ – Sharon Stone

‘The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.’ – Judy Biggert

‘I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.’ – John Pople

‘To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.’ – Joshua Lederberg

‘I have some friends, colleagues here at the Karolinska Institute and even in the United States and many other countries too, because we are working together as scientists.’ – Lennart Nilsson

‘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

‘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

‘For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near – do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don’t mind some advice from a newcomer, I’d suggest going with the will of the people.’ – Scott Brown

‘I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future.’ – Van Jones

‘We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.’ – Debbie Wasserman Schultz

‘I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it’s George Bush or Barack Obama. And I’m going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.’ – Harry Reid

‘I am announcing my resignation from Congress so my colleagues can get back to work, my neighbors can choose a new representative and most importantly that my wife and I can continue to heal from the damage I have caused.’ – Anthony Weiner

‘What we’ve tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.’ – David Plouffe

‘With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.’ – Erik Qualman

‘All the government decisions remain and won’t be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.’ – Jay Weatherill

‘A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.’ – Jenna Bush

‘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

‘When I worked at the White House in the mid-1990s, I would not have dreamed of sharing my beliefs on faith with my colleagues.’ – Mike McCurry

‘I am so envious of my colleagues from 100 years ago who only sang new works, they hardly ever sang revivals.’ – Renee Fleming

‘People often ask why I left CNN – I didn’t like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.’ – Greta Van Susteren

‘I’ve always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they’re perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I’ve dealt with plenty of neurotic men.’ – Max Hastings

‘When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.’ – Umberto Eco

‘The importance of building relationships among colleagues, of trying to create coalitions behind the issues that you are championing, was not something I ever had much insight into until I was elected and started serving in the Senate.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.’ – Karl Rove

‘I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.’ – Karl Rove

‘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

‘We’ve got to get back on track to working with them. Because if I and my colleagues are going to continue to attract inward investment from overseas – you know particularly from the big Asian countries – they see Britain as a gateway to Europe. They don’t want any doubts cast upon that.’ – Vince Cable

‘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

‘What I find is with all due deference to – deference to our male colleagues, that women’s styles tend to be more collaborative.’ – Susan Collins

‘Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can’t get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders.’ – Lucy Powell

‘The young boys I speak with say to me: Why would I want to live in this world – where they rely on charity, dry pieces of bread and water, where they are subjected to harsh treatment, when they can be free and be the envy of their colleagues in the afterlife. They are only too eager to sign on the dotted line and join the ranks of the Taliban.’ – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

‘Let’s cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don’t think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I’ve made mistakes – that’s probably one of them.’ – Rowan Williams

‘As a wheelchair user, you can’t move about freely. That’s the only thing that bothers me a little. When I’m in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.’ – Wolfgang Schauble

‘I’ve been head of strategy at IBM and together with my colleagues built our five-year plan. My priorities are going to be to continue to execute on that.’ – Ginni Rometty

‘Anybody who really knows about the TV business knows that it would be impossible to just march in one day and say to your colleagues and bosses, ‘Oh yes, I’m hosting my own show.” – Andy Cohen

‘In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.’ – Russell Hornsby

‘I felt deeply loved, highly respected by my colleagues and everybody in the world of motorsport.’ – Maria de Villota

‘My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who’ve been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we’re living in, I put my faith in those people.’ – Barry Lopez

‘It’s critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there’s been strong support for full funding and I’m still hearing that from many of my colleagues.’ – Jared Polis

‘We can’t reform mandatory spending in this area until we first deal with ours. I tell my colleagues, ‘Let’s get the moral high ground and demonstrate that we want to make changes to our pension, and then we can deal with the big problems.” – Tim Griffin

‘I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.’ – Richard Ford

‘When my colleagues went to endorse Rob Garagiola, nobody asked me for my opinion about that. And I didn’t ask anybody else. I did what I thought was the right thing to do, and I made a decision, just like they did.’ – Donna Edwards

‘It’s 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you’ve finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don’t come off as a slacker. It’s an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.’ – Robert Pozen

‘Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist.’ – Robert Fisk

‘Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, ‘We should have boot camps.” – Christine Pelosi

‘It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be boasting of their achievements.’ – Robert Winston

‘As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early ’80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.’ – Richard Carmona

‘I was convinced I’d hate Twitter – but I’ve come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often – I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it’s nice to have the contact.’ – Joanne Harris

‘I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn’t really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.’ – Gary Hamel

‘From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the ’70s, the general attitude – not just me, but also my colleagues – was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.’ – Marina Abramovic

‘Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it’s a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.’ – Samantha Power

‘We’ve known for a long time that the universe is expanding. But about 15 years ago, my colleagues and I discovered that it is expanding faster and faster. That is, the universe is accelerating, and that was not expected, but it is now attributed to this mysterious stuff called dark energy which seems to make up about 70 percent of the universe.’ – Adam Riess

‘There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn’t know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn’t find it. There was nothing.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘Awards are great, as you get to meet up with friends and colleagues from your industry – a sort of reunion.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘Women in pro-ams are always telling me about all the business deals they’ve struck on the golf course playing with their male work colleagues.’ – Paula Creamer

‘I didn’t come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique – for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.’ – David Schweikert

‘My weekends start at about 4 P.M. on Friday afternoon, when I let go of work and leave my colleagues to crawl through the rest of the day in our New York offices.’ – Bobbi Brown

‘Being Italian, I have a very special relationship with the culinary arts. One my projects was to share Italian cultural food with my colleagues.’ – Luca Parmitano

‘I have an eccentric view on commodities not necessarily shared by my colleagues – or by almost anybody. And that is, we’re running out of everything.’ – Jeremy Grantham

‘I’ve met so many leaders who realize that telling your colleagues something that is on your mind is so much easier than keeping it in. Sometimes the things we make up in our heads are not nearly as big a deal as we think.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Most people think of leaders as being these outgoing, very visible, and charismatic people, which I find to be a very narrow perception. The key challenge for managers today is to get beyond the surface of your colleagues. You might just find that you have introverts embedded within your organization who are natural-born leaders.’ – Douglas Conant

‘Do awards change careers? Well, I haven’t heard of many stories where that’s the case. It’s a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who’ve done well that year in certain people’s eyes, and it’s nothing more than that.’ – Benedict Cumberbatch

‘The fact that I don’t have any particular need for religion doesn’t mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.’ – Brian Greene

‘Yes. I’m a doctor, an epidemiologist, and lots of my professional colleagues flip back and forth between industry and medical roles. I know them; they are not bad people. But it is possible for good people in bad systems to do things that inflict enormous harm.’ – Ben Goldacre

‘There is a group of entrepreneurs pushing the envelope, government officials that are making significant changes despite the odds, and visionary writers, academics, and colleagues whose work confirms, amplifies, and stretches my own thinking.’ – Robin Chase

‘My peers and colleagues inspire me.’ – Robin Chase

‘My first job was scooping ice cream at Friendly’s in Albany, New York. I hated the work, most of my colleagues, and the uniform, and I more or less lost my taste for ice cream permanently.’ – Gregory Maguire

‘Liberals are my friends, my colleagues, my social world.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.’ – Hanna Rosin

‘I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn’t a ‘bomb thrower’ like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.’ – Dick Cheney

‘I am so very honored to be the recipient of MIPCOM’s 2011 Personality of the Year. However, the accomplishments that have led to this honor are not mine alone. They are the result of the tireless efforts of so very many talented colleagues.’ – Anne Sweeney

‘Unlike most youngsters who have school as their ‘second home’ where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.’ – Saina Nehwal

‘In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.’ – Andrea Bocelli

‘Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.’ – Al Franken

‘Net neutrality isn’t a government takeover of the Internet, as many of my Republican colleagues have alleged.’ – Al Franken

‘When you start a movie, it’s not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You’re meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘I don’t go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you’re willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.’ – Francis Ford Coppola

‘The people have given me their support; they have given me their trust and confidence. My colleagues have suffered a lot in order to give me support. I do not look upon my life as a sacrifice at all.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘I like stand-up. But I’d also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there’s people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.’ – Demetri Martin

‘My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘My sister-in-law works for a group that supports orphanages in Cairo. She and her colleagues take care of children left behind by circumstances beyond their control. They feed these children, clothe them, and teach them to read.’ – Mohamed ElBaradei

‘I’ve seen so many people – loved ones and colleagues – who jump from one diet to the next, one exercise regimen to the next . I was trying to figure out what were some of the basic things that each of us can build into a lifestyle for good, instead of bouncing from one thing to the next.’ – Tom Rath

‘When your boss and colleagues care enough to invest in your health, it is good for you and the business.’ – Tom Rath

‘If my colleagues stop eating donuts and are more active, it saves me money on next year’s insurance premium, and I get to work with people who have more energy and creativity each day. Yet most organizations fail to make health a cultural priority. Instead, they treat healthcare like any other expense.’ – Tom Rath

‘Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I’ve told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It’s not personal, it’s business.’ – Katharine Weymouth

‘I don’t know how many times I’ve turned to Twitter and Facebook to commiserate and celebrate, bounce ideas off of friends, colleagues and other entrepreneurs, and just connect with the wider world outside my office.’ – Ryan Holmes

‘A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.’ – Lars Peter Hansen

‘When I start getting embroiled in heated debates and feeling stressed, I just turn everything off and disconnect from the world. I simply tell my colleagues and friends that I am not well and need to cancel all meetings for a day or more. I take it easy – go for a long hike, take a vacation somewhere, or just stay at home and read.’ – Vivek Wadhwa

‘Next week we’ll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the ‘secret milkshake.” – Ronnie Barker

‘I had no trouble with strangers finding out about my anxiety. It was my friends and colleagues I was concerned about.’ – Scott Stossel

‘There’s something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce – or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues – not all – I offer that preliminary consultation for free.’ – Laura Wasser

‘If someone can’t behave with their colleagues and can’t be part of the culture, it doesn’t matter how good they are at what they do; they have to be asked to leave.’ – Bob Diamond

‘Most of my colleagues have research awards on the shelf. I have party invites.’ – Anita Elberse

‘When I talk to teachers, parents, superintendents, my colleagues, everyone wants to fix No Child Left behind. There is great dissatisfaction with No Child Left Behind.’ – John Kline

‘I’d like to see a comprehensive gun control bill brought to the floor, but if we have to do it in several votes, that’s fine, too. But give us the vote. Let us make our case to our colleagues on the floor and have a vote.’ – James Langevin

‘I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.’ – Erik Paulsen

‘I have no hang-ups in life. I don’t care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don’t have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.’ – Abhishek Bachchan

‘I don’t see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don’t think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘If one of my colleagues wants to block a bill, they should stand up in front of the American people and explain why.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.’ – David Chang

‘I have seen countless colleagues struggle to come to terms with retirement. I learned a lot from Richard Dunwoody when he was riding, and I completely understand why he took off and undertook what most people consider mad challenges.’ – Tony McCoy

‘When I tell my colleagues that I remember 1969, 1974 and 1987, their eyes glaze over, but I’m afraid I do remember them, and I therefore err on the side of caution.’ – Johann Rupert

‘I cannot and will not raise money on Benghazi. I also advise my colleagues to follow suit.’ – Trey Gowdy

‘NASA’s Office of Commercial Exploration has been concerned about protecting the landing zones where humans first walked on the Moon, and one of my colleagues, ecologist Margaret Race, has been part of their deliberations.’ – Seth Shostak

‘My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We’re professionals. That’s what we do. I don’t give a damn about the short-term market implications.’ – Steve Wynn

‘I’ve done pretty well in my career, and I’ve watched colleagues who have spent most of the paychecks they receive on shoes and cars rather than bricks and mortar, and that’s not me.’ – Anthony Warlow

‘I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.’ – Kurt Schrader

‘While I am grateful for the friendships and relationships that I have with my Republican colleagues, it would be naive to pretend that those friendships will change the way that major policies are enacted in Arizona.’ – Kyrsten Sinema

‘Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.’ – Kyrsten Sinema

‘Being a scientist is a special privilege: for it brings the opportunity to be creative, the passionate quest for answers to nature’s most precious secrets, and the warm friendships of many valued colleagues.’ – Stanley B. Prusiner

‘Nelson Mandela went to jail believing in violence, and 27 years later he and his colleagues had slowly and carefully honed the skills, the incredible skills, that they needed to turn one of the most vicious governments the world has known into a democracy. And they did it in a total devotion to non-violence.’ – Scilla Elworthy

‘By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

‘You know, ever since man had any notion that some of his other people, his colleagues, could be different, could be strange, could be severely depressed or what we now recognize as schizophrenia, he was certain that this kind of illness had to come from evil spirits getting into the body.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

‘I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, ‘Chris, you have a strange career.” – Chris Adami

‘What my Republican colleagues often don’t understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.’ – Chris Smith

‘In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.’ – Jackie Speier

‘The rehearsal process is the most important thing to me, so working with colleagues who are effusive, thoughtful, young and vivacious is really inspiring as a musician.’ – Susanna Phillips

‘It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I’m not in wrestling anymore. I’m in sports entertainment. Pro’ wrestling doesn’t mean that we’re saying we’re a step up above amateur wrestling, because there’s nothing above Olympic wrestling.’ – Kurt Angle

‘I wrote ‘The Spy Who Came in from the Cold’ at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.’ – John le Carre

‘I have a treasure trove of Baker memories, all of which reinforce my sense of Howard Baker as one of the most decent people with whom I have worked. While I was simply a young staffer, he never treated me or my colleagues as anything else but equals.’ – John Yarmuth

‘As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.’ – Ken Goldberg

‘The mobile Web, location-based services, inexpensive and pervasive mobile apps, and new sorts of opportunities to access cars, bikes, tools, talent, and more from our neighbors and colleagues will propel peer-to-peer access services into market.’ – Lisa Gansky

‘Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.’ – Erik Paulsen

‘I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.’ – Victor Ponta

‘With so many part-time people on – and not on – the job, corporate America has started to feel like it’s on a permanent maternity leave. Colleagues are an amorphous, free-floating army of rotating waifs whose voicemails are clogged with plaintive requests from their own offices for missing information.’ – Tina Brown

‘In the Senate, where 60 votes are required to do anything important, you have to work with your colleagues on both sides of the aisle.’ – Lamar Alexander

‘The process of writing ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ entailed the developing a new theory. My colleagues, students and I have been improving that theory, and adding others to it, since that time.’ – Clayton M. Christensen

‘In science, one should use all available resources to solve difficult problems. One of our most powerful resources is the insight of our colleagues.’ – Peter Agre

‘I think to be afraid is very important. It’s to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can’t really say why I don’t want to go right or left. It’s a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.’ – Anja Niedringhaus

‘Many of my friends and colleagues are in the public eye, so they have to pay close attention to what they wear. But every woman needs to stay on her toes in this era of cell-phone cameras and Facebook.’ – Nina Garcia

‘I don’t know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.’ – Cory Booker

‘Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.’ – Claire McCaskill

‘I try to frighten my very young colleagues into studying and understanding their voices before they attempt things that are beyond them. It’s wise to take gymnastics and swimming to strengthen the body, because people don’t realise what an athletic undertaking singing actually is.’ – Jessye Norman

‘There’s a village in my computer – friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It’s a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.’ – Lisa Unger

‘To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.’ – Ricardo Salinas Pliego

‘When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.’ – Donald Bren

‘My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With ‘Chicken Run,’ we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn’t lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.’ – Nick Park

‘Your first six months in the Senate, you spend a lot of time wondering how the hell you got here. After that, you look around at your colleagues and wonder how the hell any of them got here.’ – Jim Webb

‘Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button – ’59 cents.’ Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, ‘What does ’59 cents’ mean?’ One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women’s rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, ‘Well, Jenny Shipley, who’s looking after your children?’ I don’t think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘I’m not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘As a physician, I know that human life begins with fertilization, and I remain committed to ending abortion in all stages of pregnancy. I will continue to fight this atrocity on behalf of the unborn, and I hope my colleagues will support me in doing so.’ – Paul Broun

‘Film acting, if you don’t play the lead, you come, and you do your scenes in a few days, and you act with a couple of colleagues. All the rest of the actors you never see, and you don’t even meet many of them. And you don’t know what will happen with what you’ve done. Maybe it will be in the film, maybe it will not.’ – Max von Sydow

‘I am one of the most successful economists, according to what markets tell us, though most of my professional colleagues, who are much keener to accept market outcomes than I am, would dismiss me as a crank or – the worst of all abuses among economists – a ‘sociologist.” – Ha-Joon Chang

‘I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don’t have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.’ – Susanne Bier

‘I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had the privilege of working with. My colleagues are powerful and intelligent and kind. The cost of living is low, the prairie is wide, and on clear nights, I can see all the stars in the sky above.’ – Roxane Gay

‘The lawyer refused to tell me my brother’s name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James – someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.’ – Mona Simpson

‘We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.’ – Fabiola Gianotti

‘I’ve said I will be CEO as long as my colleagues want me.’ – Ivan Glasenberg

‘When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve… mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.’ – Elizabeth Blackburn

‘We need a leader able to project his or her personality and present our policies in today’s media environment. All this is true – but we also need a leader capable of building a team, inspiring loyalty from colleagues, and one genuinely open to ideas.’ – Bob Ainsworth

‘Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended.’ – Scott Rudin

‘Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.’ – Johann Lamont

‘There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs… the Nationalists who can’t accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.’ – Johann Lamont

‘I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.’ – Sharad Pawar

‘As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.’ – Andre Geim

‘Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don’t.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.’ – Phil Klay

‘After hearing from my colleagues, I have decided to run for Speaker of the House. Let’s work together to make a difference for our country.’ – Kevin McCarthy

‘In my own career, I have always tried to treat my colleagues with respect and kindness, whoever they are, and am proud to have developed and mentored the careers of many excellent young scientists who will be tackling tomorrow’s biological problems long after I have left the scene.’ – Tim Hunt

‘One of the most delightful parts of being a writer is connecting with people via social media. I devote ten minutes out of every writing hour to Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and other sites. I don’t use assistants for that. It’s me and all of my friends, fans, readers, and colleagues on the crazyboat.’ – Jonathan Maberry

‘I think I have met nearly all the Laureates in Economics. Among the few I haven’t met, I suppose I’d most like to meet Ronald Coase because of his legendary power to persuade his colleagues of the validity of the Coase Theorem.’ – Eric Maskin

‘Both my parents said they never got so many emails from friends and colleagues – with all the theater work that I’ve done – than when I was on ‘The Good Wife.” – Sarah Steele

‘Both for my wife and myself, the personal friendships that have grown out of scientific contacts with colleagues from many different countries have been an important part of our lives, and the travels we have made together in connection with the world-wide scientific co-operation have given us rich treasures of experiences.’ – Aage Bohr

‘Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.’ – Alfred Hershey

‘I’m really just trying… to write what feels true to me. I don’t think about a lofty responsibility. I think I’d be paralyzed by that. Like any of my male colleagues, I’m writing the stories that interest me in a way that feels true to me.’ – Kelly Sue DeConnick

‘I prefer to find craftspeople I can be colleagues with and who take an area of responsibility and run with it.’ – Jack Dangermond

‘The prize was really for the molecule. In 1962, Osamu Shimomura discovered a protein in a jellyfish that caused it to glow bright green. With colleagues, 30 years later, I was able to insert this G.F.P. gene into bacteria and make them turn green.’ – Martin Chalfie

‘My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.’ – Aaron Ciechanover

‘Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with – in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual’s life lessons and insights that we can all learn from – I am each time overwhelmed by joy.’ – Nigel Hamilton

‘I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.’ – Alan J. Heeger

‘I like to think that when Medawar and his colleagues showed that immunological tolerance could be produced experimentally, the new immunology was born.’ – Frank Macfarlane Burnet

‘I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.’ – Maelle Gavet

‘McDermott and two colleagues – James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University – published a paper titled ‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.’ Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.’ – Katie Hafner

‘Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other’s right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.’ – Letitia Baldrige

‘I’ve been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can’t imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.’ – Jay Parini

‘As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues – Republican and Democrat alike – were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.’ – Cedric Richmond

‘In France, where Franklin had lived from 1776 to 1785, he had won an extraordinary place in the public mind. The French had lionized him to the point of absurdity – or so at least his colleagues in the American mission thought.’ – Edmund Morgan

‘Women in sports television are allowed to read headlines, patrols sidelines, and generally facilitate conversation for their male colleagues. Sometimes, they even let us monitor the Internet from a couch.’ – Katie Nolan

‘Understand, this is unemployment insurance. It’s not welfare, as a lot of my Republican colleagues like to suggest it is. You pay into it when you’re working. You get help when you’re not.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘I think the intellectual consistency of Christianity in historical evidence is frankly overwhelming, but my materialist colleagues regard me as a slightly sad case.’ – Simon Conway Morris

‘I’m very pleased to be part of the XCOR team and look forward to working with friends and colleagues on many of the exciting development efforts at XCOR, including the family of Lynx vehicles.’ – Brian Binnie

‘One of the gifts of ‘Star Trek’ is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.’ – George Takei

‘I have passed, I hope, many tests over the course of the last 20-odd years in relation to the peace process and intend to continue to work forward in a very sensible and reasoned way with political colleagues in the Executive.’ – Martin McGuinness

‘The reason why I’m in Parliament is not really to see my colleagues win power; it is to see us at last in a position where we can give it up.’ – Michael Gove

‘I haven’t agreed with every one of my Republican colleagues or Democratic colleagues on every issue. But I’m supporting Donald Trump because we need change in this country.’ – Mike Pence

‘My mother didn’t set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it’s because they don’t really understand Malcolm X – or his wife.’ – Ilyasah Shabazz

‘Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald’s or Walmart, ‘How many jobs do you have?’ and likely he or she will tell you: ‘Two.’ I know colleagues who’ve had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.’ – Donna Brazile

‘Instead of turning away from our neighbors, our friends, our colleagues, let us instead learn from our history and avoid repeating the mistakes of our past.’ – Loretta Lynch

‘Like all of my colleagues, I believe financial reform is necessary now.’ – Scott Garrett

‘My colleagues and I met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli military and security officials to discuss our votes against the terrible Iran deal and to reaffirm our commitment to our longstanding alliance.’ – Scott Garrett

‘I cannot ignore this reality, and I encourage my all colleagues to join me in this fight to end modern day slavery in our own backyard.’ – Blake Farenthold

‘I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to advance policies that level the playing field for American workers and incentivize investing in jobs here at home.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.’ – James Comey

‘I don’t say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever.’ – John Delaney

‘Unfortunately, my colleagues in Congress have unfairly burdened the Postal Service with a costly, unfunded mandate to pre-pay health care for retirees. No other agency or business has to pay these costs in advance – and neither should the Postal Service.’ – Marcia Fudge

‘I like a lot of my Republican colleagues, starting with my friend from Indiana, Senator Lugar. We’ve had an excellent relationship.’ – Evan Bayh

‘Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.’ – Evan McMullin

‘The SFPD has had a lot of issues, and I think one of the issues that needs to be addressed is the racist text messages that have been passed back and forth between PD members, not only talking about the community, but also talking about colleagues that work in the same department as them.’ – Colin Kaepernick

‘I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.’ – Pardis Sabeti

‘Teachers need time to engage with colleagues – whether shadowing, mentoring, co-teaching or conferring. They need a voice in school decisions and to be trusted as professionals.’ – Randi Weingarten

‘The Nobel Prize in Economics is an incredible recognition for the work that my students, colleagues and I have done over the years. We all worked hard, but we were also lucky that the financial applications were so important.’ – Robert F. Engle

‘When I first started modeling, I realised I was very different from many of my colleagues, but I welcomed the opportunities my career in fashion offered me and the support from many inspiring individuals in the fashion industry.’ – Alek Wek

‘As we approached our work, my colleagues and I looked to the U.S. Constitution for guidance. It states, ‘No person shall … be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.’ No person, no exceptions.’ – Asa Hutchinson

‘Am I a homophobe? Look, I work in show business. I am awash in gay people, as colleagues and as friends.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘It’s not simply to say, ‘My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,’ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.’ – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

‘I am not a shock jock pastry chef. I don’t create desserts using strange ingredients just for the sake of doing so, like so many of my colleagues in the industry.’ – Johnny Iuzzini

‘Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.’ – Neil Gorsuch

‘I have a tremendous network of friends and colleagues at other firms.’ – Aileen Lee

‘Early in my career, I didn’t want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else – including myself – because I couldn’t give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.’ – John Rampton

‘If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues – because we are what we think we are, but we’re also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There’s always a hidden face.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘Some of my colleagues I have the most differences with in decisions are ones with whom I have a very friendly relationship. You have to be able to step back and look at the issues and your colleagues.’ – Charles T. Canady

‘You can run 20km, 80, 100, and if there’s no spirit between the players, the coaches, as colleagues, it won’t come out as well.’ – Diego Costa

‘Many young adults I have communicated with – both in-person and over email – constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.’ – Dana Perino

‘You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you’re putting your work out on the line, it’s also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.’ – Phillipa Soo

‘My colleagues and I were engineers who worked for DCM’s calculator division. These electronic calculators used digital integrated circuits, and then they started using chips. The advanced versions of those chips were used for programmable calculators, which were the forerunners of PCs.’ – Shiv Nadar

‘I resolve to work with my colleagues to succeed in producing the good rather than failing to produce the perfect.’ – Thom Tillis

‘My Democratic colleagues, many of whom hold law degrees, should know better than to intentionally oversimplify court rulings to mislead the public and score political points.’ – Thom Tillis

‘Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know when it is time to seek help from more experienced professionals. I’m a primary care doctor. It doesn’t mean I know everything. When something is beyond my competency or expertise, I seek consultation from my colleagues.’ – David Shulkin

‘I don’t have the level of vitriol and hatred for the other side as some of my colleagues do.’ – Mike Gallagher

‘Writing is a solitary occupation; we don’t really have any colleagues.’ – Chris Pavone

‘As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that’ll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that’ll be in front of millions of eyes.’ – Chris Pavone

‘In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to be that guy.’ – Ken Liu

‘I would say to Republicans that when you look at civil rights legislation that took place in the 1960s, it took a bipartisan effort to get those things done, and so what I would tell my colleagues, both Republicans and Democrats, is let’s come together, and let’s be for fairness.’ – Marc Veasey

‘Instead of continuing with his empty crusade against voter fraud, President Trump should urge his Republican colleagues in Congress to work with Democrats to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act and restore the right to vote to all American citizens.’ – Marc Veasey

‘Starting in 2005, my first session in the legislature, my colleagues elected me to be Democratic whip.’ – Marc Veasey

‘When medical students focus on helping others, they’re able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.’ – Adam Grant

‘I write to be read. I’m quite direct about that. I’m not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that’s not my goal.’ – Erik Larson

‘Let’s teach our girls and boys how to show the same respect to their colleagues in the workplace they show their moms and sisters at home.’ – Gretchen Carlson

‘Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, ‘Who would vote for you? Look at her face.” – Maxine Waters

‘My Democratic colleagues should not forget that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were both given up or down votes by Republicans.’ – Thom Tillis

‘My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA’s involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.’ – Valerie Plame

‘I have survived so long because I’ve been blessed with talented and gracious colleagues and with a top brass who let me choose my topics every week and then allowed me to express opinions that were not always popular. Well, someone had to stand up to the yackety-yak soccer cult.’ – Frank Deford

‘I understand the politics of Washington, D.C. You need to hold firm, you need to work with your colleagues, and you need to throw elbows.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.’ – Pam Bondi

‘I play to be happy in the first place and then to help my colleagues and my team the best way I can, with the best football.’ – Neymar

‘If you’re not making use of even the most routine assignment to learn something, realize that many of your colleagues and coworkers are.’ – Adena Friedman

‘I have never really had a goal to be a true blue movie star, unlike a lot of my colleagues.’ – Ali Fazal

‘I had to work just as hard as my male colleagues.’ – Chanda Kochhar

‘I’ve been fortunate in life to benefit from family, educators, work colleagues, and a set of mentors and sponsors, all of whom did not hesitate to offer and support me with every opportunity to achieve what I set out to do.’ – Cathy Engelbert

‘It is amazing what colleagues tell you about the inefficiencies and about what works and what doesn’t. It is a real-life check on our ideas.’ – Judith McKenna

‘I didn’t know how to pass a major piece of legislation; I didn’t know how to get colleagues to support my views. It took a lot of asking for advice and learning. One of the lessons is that you have to be able to tell people why you care, and you’re only going to be able to do that if you talk to someone whom an issue is affecting.’ – Kirsten Gillibrand

‘Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.’ – Bjarke Ingels

‘My colleagues on the Board of Governors and I understand the value of having a diverse financial system that includes a large and vibrant contingent of community banks.’ – Jerome Powell

‘It’s a great honour to be recognised and appreciated by your fellow colleagues.’ – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

‘I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That’s part of a celeb’s life.’ – Virender Sehwag

‘I vividly remember early on in my career when I was eight months pregnant, working literally around the clock, and worrying that each trip to the restroom or my need to catch the occasional catnap was causing my colleagues to question whether I could keep up.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘As the leaders of this great country, I urge my fellow colleagues in the House, governors, and presidential candidates alike to hold ourselves up to a higher standard.’ – Mike Quigley

‘A+E Networks has been my home for over a decade. I am so proud of these brands and my A+E colleagues who are truly the best in the business.’ – Nancy Dubuc

‘My purpose is to call on my colleagues, whether they’re Republicans or Democrats, to get behind the agenda of trying to reform the government and make it work for the people rather than the other way around.’ – Mike Lee

‘Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information.’ – Frans van Houten

‘I am grateful to my colleagues at Brandeis and to the unusual environment here that allows researchers to explore without boundaries while also engaging students in the process of discovery. This is a very special – perhaps unique – university.’ – Michael Rosbash

‘Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.’ – Sheldon Whitehouse

‘When the chair of an investigating committee refuses to share vital findings or source information with any of his colleagues, his committee’s ability to function has been fundamentally undermined.’ – Raja Krishnamoorthi

‘It’s wonderful to see more of my colleagues recognizing the importance of investing in STEM education and scientific research and development.’ – Bill Foster

‘It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the criticism from colleagues, voters, the press and defend yourself.’ – Dick Durbin

‘In a way, I think of the press as my colleagues. I don’t want to throw hand grenades at people who do something that’s pretty similar to what I do. But at the same time, we all need to take ourselves seriously and be responsible as professionals. And there was a collective failure in the treatment of Christopher Jefferies.’ – Peter Morgan

‘There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor – all subtly different personas.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?’ – Faith Salie

‘I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn’t think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.’ – Carl Hart

‘Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.’ – Karyn Kusama

‘I was surprised by some of my French colleagues who immediately assumed that because I spoke English with an American accent, that, therefore, you must be a supporter of whoever is the current president of the United States. There seems to be this widespread feeling that, ‘Oh, American accent – therefore, you like cowboy boots.” – Toomas Hendrik Ilves

‘If you want to stand with me as a single mom – and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do – please don’t appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘In a lot of ways, the real learning at RISD happened after-hours when you’re working side by side with your colleagues.’ – Joe Gebbia

‘My life is so different because of ‘Waitress.’ The people that I’m close to, the things I do professionally, my colleagues, my best friend and my boyfriend – like, all of these things have come to me because of the show. And it’s really beautiful.’ – Sara Bareilles

‘When I talk about the C.I.A. stuff, I feel guilt because I left. I really believed in that job, and my colleagues are still there. But I have kids now.’ – Tom King

‘My Oscar has appeared in every play I’ve done since – not in view of the audience, but for my colleagues to enjoy.’ – F. Murray Abraham

‘Girls Who Code doesn’t exist solely to discover the next great female technology icon, although that would be great! In addition to coding, the girls at our program learn to pitch ideas and products, present themselves professionally, and interact with colleagues at every level of a company.’ – Reshma Saujani

‘The University of Pennsylvania and my wonderful colleagues in the Department of Religious Studies have been routinely sent hate emails about me. Calls to fire me are numerous. Some have even come from within the university. The Penn Switchboard is flooded with calls, and the more conservative alums threaten to stop contributing.’ – Anthea Butler

‘Sideline reporting may look insidious, superfluous, or just a total waste of airtime from where you sit – probably on a couch or a recliner, perhaps on a bar stool in your local brewery – but let me assure you, if you’re one of the handful who take it as seriously as some of my colleagues do, it is anything but.’ – Suzy Shuster

‘I’ve worked on over twenty TV staffs, and nine out of ten male colleagues are wonderful, inclusive, and professional. Still, there’s usually one guy – the Tenth Man – who turns a fun job into a dental appointment.’ – Nell Scovell

‘In 1984, I returned to Newnham College at Cambridge University to teach after completing my Ph.D. there a couple of years earlier. Almost all of my colleagues in the university’s classics department were men, and my office at the all-women’s college was in the dorm.’ – Mary Beard

‘DonorsChoose was conceived at a Bronx public high school where I taught social studies for five years. In the teachers’ lunch room, my colleagues and I often lamented a problem that drained learning from students and creativity from teachers: a lack of funding for essential materials and for the activities that bring subject matter to life.’ – Charles Best

‘When I began teaching, my colleagues and I quickly realized that our students didn’t have access to the same resources we had growing up. We knew there were supplies and resources that could help our students, but our school district simply couldn’t afford them.’ – Charles Best

‘My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy paper and pencils, and often we couldn’t get the resources that would excite our students about learning.’ – Charles Best

‘I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better. They just didn’t have the resources. I was frustrated, but I also knew it was a frustration felt by teachers all over the city.’ – Charles Best

‘My colleagues and I were always having the same conversation in the teachers lunchroom about books we wanted our students to read, a field trip we knew would really bring a subject matter to life… And most of us would go into our own pockets to buy just paper and pencils.’ – Charles Best

‘After 14 years of running DonorsChoose.org as someone who had never written a line of code, I did do a three-month night school course. After all these years, I could at least speak some of the same vocabulary and have a first-hand appreciation for what my colleagues on the engineering team are doing.’ – Charles Best

‘My colleagues and I would spend a lot of our own money on copy, paper, and pencils. I just figured there are people out there who would want to help teachers like us if they could see exactly where their money was going.’ – Charles Best

‘I consider myself a product of Berry Gordy, but not a clone… He and I are always friends and colleagues, and I will always revere him as a mentor and boss. Though, of course, I’m always struggling for more equal footing.’ – Suzanne de Passe

‘We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don’t build that many relationships.’ – Caroline Ghosn

‘Some of my colleagues are unwilling to vote for any Dodd-Frank reforms, partly out of the political fear that any reforms will be seen as reducing regulations on the financial sector.’ – Seth Moulton

‘We removed ‘Russia Today’ from the logo after many colleagues, also from foreign media, told us that it was diminishing our potential audience.’ – Margarita Simonyan

‘We’ve had Vice President Pence visiting Tallinn, where he met not only with me but also with my other Baltic colleagues – Lithuanian President Ms. Grybauskaite and Latvian President Mr. Vejonis. And, of course, Vice President Pence has been very clear that NATO acts as a whole. Attack against one is attack against all.’ – Kersti Kaljulaid

‘Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.’ – David Grinspoon

‘Being editor of ‘Slate’ is the best job I’ve ever had because of the freedom and support given to me by Don Graham and the Post Co. and because of the opportunity to work with colleagues I admire and adore.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed ‘Love Actually,’ they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.’ – Lisa Jewell

‘No clean energy development is complete without extensive environmental protections, and I’ve been proud to work in a bipartisan fashion with my colleagues in Congress to protect our most precious natural resources.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘In Congress, I have worked with my colleagues to pass the 21st Century Cures Act.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘As a millennial in Congress, I believe it’s very important that we’re educating our colleagues.’ – Elise Stefanik

‘When women do take on traditionally male subjects, certain male colleagues can seem affronted that a woman has dared to trespass on their subject. I could given you dozens of examples, but here’s one: Max Hastings’s review in the ‘Sunday Times’ in 2009 of Miranda Carter’s book ‘The Three Emperors’.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘Motherhood gives you access to a range of different intellectual experiences and ways of seeing the world, which, in a way, makes you more flexible in the workplace. But our employers, our colleagues, don’t necessarily understand.’ – Alissa Quart

‘As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.’ – Jasmila Zbanic

‘Few things detract more from your credibility and the respect of your colleagues and peers than being called on the carpet to deflect accusations and defend an untruth.’ – Mark Goulston

‘At one point, I got to work as an assistant for Martin Scorsese: He wanted to know about all the films coming out, so I would make clippings and put it all in a big scrapbook for him. I was also in charge of his video library – it was like a little video store, and his friends and colleagues would come and borrow films.’ – Michael Imperioli

‘I like new experiences, so I want to promote the same among my colleagues, and this is why I decided to go on this adventure, because I believe going to the Moon will help me create something better.’ – Yusaku Maezawa

‘I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.’ – Maurizio Cattelan

‘As a judge, I have always treated colleagues and litigants with the utmost respect.’ – Brett Kavanaugh

‘I don’t know that my colleagues in Congress really care about what happens here in El Paso and in Juarez. They care what happens in their home district.’ – Beto O’Rourke

‘By refusing to lend a hand, we are not only robbing our colleagues and peers of the opportunity to gain guidance, but we are also robbing ourselves of the opportunity to lead.’ – Rebecca Serle

‘Being involved in sports and having a very sport orientated family just helped the transition extremely well. I guess, in a way, your school colleagues saw you out and about, and you were part of the team you were getting into the Australian way, learning the language. The transition was extremely smooth.’ – Saroo Brierley

‘When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.’ – Kaka

‘Of course there are other prima donnas around. So many of my colleagues, younger ones, are wonderful.’ – Montserrat Caballe

‘I’m so thankful to Fox News for the chance to be on ‘Outnumbered,’ but I’m leaving to focus on other things. I have no doubt the show will continue to do well and wish all my friends and colleagues at the network nothing but success.’ – Meghan McCain

‘It’s not all about the figures. It’s about how you play for the team, how you help your colleagues, how you work defensively.’ – Samuel Eto’o

‘For patients to be safe, we need doctors to be able to reflect completely openly and freely about what they have done, to learn from mistakes, to spread best practice around the system, to talk openly with their colleagues.’ – Jeremy Hunt

‘Before I ever endorse a candidate, I meet them, interview them, interview their colleagues and evaluate their competitors, study their positions and ideas, look at their campaign… then make a decision.’ – Shaun King

‘When Senator Cruz, with all due respect, tries to throw my network and CNN under the bus, let me stand up for my colleagues and journalists here.’ – Brooke Baldwin

‘I am a proud Article III judge. We’ve been criticized from the beginning of this great country. What I will say about me and my colleagues is it doesn’t matter to us.’ – Amul Thapar

‘Elijah Cummings and his colleagues in the House are hung up on giving more money to Puerto Rico when we have our own farmers who are fixing to lose their farm.’ – Brian Kemp

‘I would be a rich man if I had a quarter for every time one of my Republican colleagues on the Foreign Relations Committee utters some variation of the sentence, ‘President Obama doesn’t have a strategy to defeat ISIS.’ It’s their calling card on the committee – and on the campaign trail.’ – Chris Murphy

‘I pride myself on respecting my colleagues.’ – Stephen A. Smith

‘Jurgen Klopp is actually more active on the sidelines than some of his colleagues. For us players, this is very motivating. He gives us extra energy on the pitch through his coaching.’ – Naby Keita

‘I don’t need to speak with my colleagues in the national side to know what kind of player Messi is. He’s one of the best players in the history of football and very difficult to stop.’ – Jesus Navas

‘If I have the chance to be an important part for my colleagues or someone they can look at and say, ‘He’s doing good; he’s motivated,’ this is an objective I want to reach.’ – Marc-Andre ter Stegen

‘From the directives that govern the way we do business to the chilling effect of the eurozone crisis on our exports, the European Union pervades our daily lives like never before. Like many of my colleagues on the Tory benches, I believe that renegotiating the terms of our membership is vital for this country’s long-term prosperity.’ – Dominic Raab

‘I find discussing mathematics with colleagues of different backgrounds one of the most productive ways of making progress.’ – Maryam Mirzakhani

‘History will judge harshly my Republican colleagues who deny the science of climate change. Similarly, those Democrats who would use climate change as a basis to regulate out of existence the American experience will face the harsh reality that their ideas will fail.’ – Matt Gaetz

‘Forget about hair or our appearance. My acting style is different from my other colleagues.’ – Shweta Tripathi

‘I am neither hurt nor disturbed by the occasional backbiting and criticism from my colleagues. By and large, the music industry has been very supportive.’ – Himesh Reshammiya

‘I think talk radio belongs to conservatives now after the last 20, 30 years of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, my colleagues at Salem, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder.’ – Sebastian Gorka

‘All of us who are flying on international space stations speak some Russian and speak some English. Both the languages are needed to fly in a Russian spacecraft and communicate with your colleagues.’ – Sunita Williams

‘Height is a funny thing in tennis because it definitely helps the serve, but it can hinder agility and movement. I think I have to spend a lot more time working on movement and flexibility than some of my shorter colleagues.’ – Kevin Anderson

‘On my first mission, I was the spacewalk supervisor: the person that runs the spacewalk from inside the vehicle. As such, I was the one that closed the hatch when my colleagues left to work outside for six hours. And I was also the person who opens the hatch when they come back, and we repressurize.’ – Julie Payette

‘I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I’m working at mission control than I am myself on the shuttle.’ – Julie Payette

‘Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.’ – Lothar Matthaus

‘It’s always an honour to receive recognition, but I always consider them more important when they come from your colleagues.’ – Michael Laudrup

‘I like to play with my back to the goal, but my colleagues have to tell me when I’m alone or how much room I have so I can choose to pass or to go straight for the goal.’ – Roberto Baggio

‘I don’t get into any catfights with any of my colleagues. I want to keep a healthy work vibe with them, so I constantly message my women colleagues to keep in touch with them even after our film has wrapped up.’ – Asin

‘I don’t party with my colleagues after work.’ – Asin

‘I miss everything that surrounds the club. I miss my colleagues, my friends and everyone who cares for Barcelona.’ – Bojan Krkic

‘Every day, I talk to Democratic and Republican colleagues with lots of ideas about the work we should be doing.’ – Tina Smith

‘We need more men to talk about their experiences of being a dad with colleagues, friends and family. It shouldn’t be surprising to hear about men being good fathers and it’s one of the most powerful ways we can counter the harmful ‘hapless dad’ stereotype.’ – Jo Swinson

‘Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will go to jail and bear the same brunt of punishment as any other criminal.’ – Andrea Leadsom

‘No one should feel comfortable venting racist abuse, whether from the stands or through media outlets. Just as fans must call out any fans they see hurling abuse, journalists must call out colleagues who perpetuate divisive rhetoric. Name and shame them.’ – Eniola Aluko

‘I would like to think that I have followed in the proper tradition of attorneys-general, providing good quality advice to my colleagues in government and have taken on their needs and concerns.’ – Dominic Grieve

‘If you are making policies through speeches that are contradicting some of the policy development your colleagues are embarked on, you are destroying collective responsibility.’ – Dominic Grieve

‘President Obama should heed the advice of many of his own Democratic colleagues who have called the attacks ‘nauseating’ and ‘unfair’ and stay clear of criticizing Romney for his tenure at Bain Capital.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.’ – Mercedes Schlapp

‘As a former undercover CIA officer, I’ve worked with my colleagues in the 114th Congress to approach the growing terrorist threat from a number of angles, including addressing the issue of terrorists’ ease of travel, combating terrorist recruitment strategies, and improving our own counterterrorism capabilities.’ – Will Hurd

‘I was in the CIA for nine years. I am intimately familiar with the information classification system. I used it every day on the job. Like every other one of my colleagues at the agency, I approached the handling of classified information with immense care because I understand the ramifications.’ – Will Hurd

‘I voted with most of my colleagues in the U.S. House to reject a farm bill that would have cut $20 billion from the SNAP program.’ – Michelle Lujan Grisham

‘I am incredibly thankful that football has provided me with a platform to give back and I am proud that so many of my colleagues have decided to use this stage to create positive and impactful change in our local communities and around the world.’ – Chris Long

‘In Mumbai, I don’t know many people. I only know colleagues.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘I like working with people who are passionate about what I’m doing. I’m super passionate about music, so I want to make sure my colleagues and people on my team are the same, as well. I’m a very hands-on artist, so I don’t give my work to my team.’ – Saweetie

‘When you spend your day writing comedy, particularly with others, the discussion of jokes and how far to push things with a group of unoffendable colleagues means that your grasp of what is acceptable in normal conversation is often skewed.’ – Romesh Ranganathan

‘Success in restoring and bolstering Second Amendment rights through aggressive legal challenges depends on you, your friends, family and colleagues.’ – Wayne LaPierre

‘Love him or hate him, you have to give Senator Bunning points for being consistent. He has never seemed all that concerned about what reporters think of him, and when you ask his colleagues, some say it’s not much different for them.’ – Dana Bash

‘Rather than influence the media, I hope that my progress from player to correspondent shows that there is a role for former cricketers in the media, despite the intolerant views of some of my colleagues in the press box.’ – Jonathan Agnew

‘I’m very passionate about political issues, but I also think that listening to people who disagree is extremely important, and I try to build that into my teaching, sometimes by co-teaching with rightwing colleagues.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘You never know what you’re going to learn from which pieces and which composers and colleagues are going to influence that thing you think you know.’ – Hilary Hahn

‘As a professional, you pick up ideas from your colleagues and the orchestras you work with, while coming up with mutual interpretations in very short periods of time.’ – Hilary Hahn

‘Some may remember that, in 2010, I publicly broke ranks with my colleagues from the Quebec City area who were pushing our government to subsidize a new sports amphitheater in the city. They had seized on this popular project to… What else? Buy votes.’ – Maxime Bernier

‘I will always believe that my vote, and the votes of my Lib Dem colleagues, are the best thing I can do to save this country from a no-deal Brexit and save it from Boris Johnson.’ – Layla Moran

‘Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.’ – Zack Steffen

‘One great pleasure of being an academic is the ability to trade in ideas with your colleagues and students; it is not much fun being the only connoisseur of some fine point.’ – Abhijit Banerjee

‘If you want positive search results, do positive things. If you don’t want negative search results, don’t do negative things. To some of my colleagues across the aisle, if you’re getting bad press articles and bad search results, don’t blame Google or Facebook or Twitter. Consider blaming yourself.’ – Ted Lieu

‘As attorney general, I would work with my colleagues in other states to launch a major antitrust investigation to look into the ways in which Facebook and Google are wielding and may be abusing their duopoly powers.’ – Zephyr Teachout

‘A Supreme Court justice must convince at least four colleagues to bind the federal government nationwide, whereas a district court judge issuing a nationwide injunction needn’t convince anyone.’ – William Barr

‘Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.’ – Jess Phillips

‘My colleagues and friends in the Freedom Caucus believe something very simple: Our country deserves a secure border and immigration laws that put the safety, security and prosperity of Americans first.’ – Mark Meadows

‘I, along with many of my Republican colleagues, believe there is so much more we can do for those who are trapped in our social safety net programs. But we are limited by the level of discourse with which of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are willing to engage.’ – Mark Meadows

‘I love what happens between colleagues. It’s just another facet of family to me. That’s certainly what we explored all over ‘The West Wing’. I was an intern in my first season between my junior and senior years of college. Then, I worked on the staff for the next six years.’ – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

‘My Nigerian colleagues gave me a good impression of the Premiership and I am glad to be here.’ – Jay-Jay Okocha

‘I have a running conversation with a couple of colleagues. Mike Schmidt’s one of them; some on my White House team are others; Alex Burns on the politics team is another. That just helps me not lose my place, right? We’re just constantly talking about what we’re hearing and where things are.’ – Maggie Haberman

‘Donald Trump’s mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he’s an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice – by a newspaper editor and a party leader – over allegations of dishonesty.’ – Owen Jones

‘I am older than most of my on-screen colleagues, and the ones behind the scenes, too.’ – Kate Garraway

‘I’d had colleagues tell me, ‘You should be calling games.’ But to actually have a producer call me and say, ‘We want you in the booth,’ I was like, What?’ – Jessica Mendoza

‘Do I get grief for the fact that in communicating, say, about the baboons I’m doing so much anthropomorphizing? One hopes that the parts that are blatantly ridiculous will be perceived as such. I’ve nonetheless been stunned by some of my more humorless colleagues – to see that they were not capable of recognizing that.’ – Robert Sapolsky

‘I’ve worked with Bernie before all of his other advisers have. We’re best friends, and we’ve been colleagues, and now we’re husband and wife, and grandparents together, and parents.’ – Jane O’Meara Sanders

‘The things that I really enjoy doing are finding interesting problems and working together with colleagues to figure out how we can solve them.’ – Jeff Dean

‘I’m proud to say like many of my colleagues in the Conservative Party I am fully behind Theresa May’s Brexit plans.’ – Liz Truss

‘My colleagues made me play Truth & Dare & gave me a task that I have to stay in a room for 3 days. The room will be locked, there will be cameras all around & it’s gonna be live.’ – Jitendra Kumar

‘Zidane was the most unpleasant among my colleagues. I have never liked him on the pitch and we have always clashed. Albeit a champion for his class, I have never managed to see his fair play.’ – Fabio Cannavaro

‘Many of my colleagues and I do films, which push the envelope and try to bring some change.’ – Ranvir Shorey

‘I will do my part every day to work with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to unite us, and not divide us.’ – Jacky Rosen

‘I’ll continue to work with my colleagues to fight efforts to roll back access to affordable health care for Nevadans.’ – Jacky Rosen

‘Throughout my time in Congress, I’ve made it my priority to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, to look past partisanship and to help pass commonsense legislation so we can help working families in Nevada and across our country.’ – Jacky Rosen

‘For me, as for our entire Agency family, the 129 stars on CIA’s Memorial Wall are more than just symbols. They are solemn reminders of friends and colleagues who answered their nation’s call, and who willingly risked their lives to protect us all.’ – Gina Haspel

‘The first boots on the ground in Afghanistan were my colleagues.’ – Gina Haspel

‘If you are a great guy with your competitors, with your colleagues, it is always good, even on the race track and off it.’ – Felipe Massa

‘Scent is very important to me but it is the case that my colleagues think it is hilarious that I simply cannot smell, ever, the smell of cannabis.’ – Cressida Dick

‘Some male colleagues, just as in accountancy, had doubts about whether women could perform some roles. There was a sense that women needed more protection or if men were out on the street they would be distracted by having to look after a female colleague.’ – Cressida Dick

‘I could never forget the dozens upon dozens of people in Atlanta who have been so great to work with across all of the platforms of cnn.com and CNN Radio, as well as fabulous colleagues at CNN International, HLN, and CNN Espanol.’ – Ed Henry

‘David Cameron needs to get his head out of the sand. He and his colleagues need to see what poverty is really like.’ – Luciana Berger

‘Many feel the need to hide their problems from their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own family.’ – Luciana Berger

‘I implore my Democratic colleagues to disregard the extreme voices of the abortion industry and radical pro-choice activists in favor of the loud, clear voice of the American people: Late-term abortion is a step too far, and post-birth abortion is horrifying.’ – Mike Braun

‘Entrepreneurship is baked into the DNA of the Kansas Third District, and I’m proud to work with my colleagues in both parties to make sure our local businesses have the tools they need to take care of their employees, grow their companies, and contribute to our economy.’ – Sharice Davids

‘I have great respect for all my colleagues.’ – Erin O’Toole

‘I’m excited to work with my colleagues to advance President Trump’s policies and advance the needs of our state and the nation.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘The congressional tradition of escaping the nation’s capital in August dates back to the time before air conditioning when Senators would race home before the summer heat reached its peak. I’ve got an advantage over many of my colleagues because we in Mississippi know something about summer heat.’ – Cindy Hyde-Smith

‘Watching talented colleagues walking away from the Cabinet table is never easy.’ – Nicky Morgan

‘I definitely want to be a doting grandmother. I love babies. My colleagues will tell you if I’m in an arena and there’s a baby in my vicinity I’m holding that baby.’ – Doris Burke

‘I work almost 20 hours a day. If it were not for my colleagues, I wouldn’t be able to manage.’ – Sara Khan

‘My father was a scientist and his colleagues were into pathology and microbiology, and study of viruses and how it spreads and mutates, so I understand the beauty with which nature works and more beautifully how our immune systems work.’ – Abhinav Shukla

‘I have tremendous respect for my colleagues.’ – Anish Giri

‘I have joined bipartisan working groups and worked to build relationships and sponsor effective legislation with my Republican colleagues.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘As many of my colleagues know, TikTok, like other Chinese companies is required under Chinese law to share information with the government and its institutions. There are real concerns that this app could also collect information on users in the United States to advance Chinese counter-intelligence efforts.’ – Abigail Spanberger

‘I have heard a lot of good stories about the UAE through my colleagues and those who have been here.’ – David Trezeguet

‘My decision to leave the Democrat Party was one that was not entered into lightly. The pressure of party bosses, activists, and even my colleagues, was great, but the Democrat Party has changed. It is no longer the party that my grandparents and I grew up admiring.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘I plan to work with all my colleagues on education and labor issues and to ensure the security of our nation by providing agencies from FEMA’s disaster recovery efforts to the Coast Guard protecting our nation with the tools they need to be successful.’ – Jeff Van Drew

‘I have always been very calm and with all the triumphs I have had I have always been sure to thank my colleagues and take things in a humble way. It is only because of this humility that I have achieved so much.’ – Paulinho

‘I have known Bhagwant Mann for many years, we have been colleagues and I am not upset with him as an individual.’ – Gurpreet Ghuggi

‘I believe in myself, I believe in my players. My target is to try to get them to believe in themselves and believe in their colleagues. These are the things that we must do.’ – Carlos Carvalhal

‘A few colleagues and I began Doctors for America with a simple belief that physicians should play a leadership role in designing and running our nation’s health care system.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘I’ve always enjoyed the respect from my male colleagues or my audiences all over the world. I’ve never suffered by the fact of being a woman on the road.’ – Tarja Turunen

‘Sean Hannity operates at Fox News with few rules. He seemingly says and does whatever he wants, even when it embarrasses his own colleagues.’ – Brian Stelter

‘I’m really lucky to have colleagues in the White House press corps who are both amazing mothers and amazing journalists. Their collective wisdom has proven invaluable in my own journey.’ – Hallie Jackson

‘Every major press organization works out of its own little space in the White House. Picture a mini cruise-ship cabin, or a row of four seats on an airplane: that’s about all the space we have. You spend hundreds of hours inches away from your colleagues.’ – Hallie Jackson

‘Movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp are ample proof that perpetrators get away because it is hard for victims to speak up. Power dynamics and lack of support from colleagues and acquaintances does not help matters.’ – Pulkit Samrat

‘I’m prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed to succeed.’ – Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

‘In Hollywood, an Angelina Jolie is paid a fee that is probably at par with her male colleagues, but we can’t expect the same here in India. Universally, films have meatier roles for men. Most films are about male protagonists and their histrionics on screen; women are signed up for song sequences and to up the glam quotient.’ – Shriya Saran

‘My painting and writing has always been parallel. That’s why probably where my colleagues have done 300 films, I have done only about a 100, out of which I’d say at least 30-35 films I am even proud of.’ – Deepti Naval

‘My friends, family and colleagues will be biased towards anything I do, like I would be towards them. But fans, especially on social media, are honest and are really good critics of my work, so I keep them close and listen as much as I can to get better and better.’ – Jubin Nautiyal

‘What has helped me the most to navigate the business side of the modeling world was having open conversations with colleagues. When I first started out, I asked other models about compensation and started learning more about the business and uncovering the truth. Having these open dialogues helped me understand more about the business side.’ – Denise Bidot

‘To be able to watch our colleagues, our friends come home safely is always an emotional event.’ – Shannon Walker

‘Gays and lesbians are our friends, neighbors, doctors, colleagues, sisters and brothers.’ – Margaret Hoover

‘I am grateful to my fans, my directors and my colleagues.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘When I signed ‘Guide,’ my colleagues in the industry said that I was doing a big mistake. They even said that this might be my last film because that was the phase when actresses in the industry were portrayed as submissive women. We used to do love stories or family dramas where women were ideal in every role.’ – Waheeda Rehman

‘I’m not a completely envy-free zone – I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies – but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don’t think I have much to envy!’ – David Starkey

‘I will be working with my colleagues in the Congress to ensure that the federal government devotes as much attention to the domestic and transnational threat of white nationalist violence as it rightly has to all forms of terrorism.’ – Tom Malinowski

‘I am thankful to the Almighty that I have been able to sustain with the support of my colleagues and Punjabis within and outside the state.’ – Amarinder Singh

‘The thing that gives me most pleasure is when I feel I’ve really engaged with my colleagues, other like-minded individuals, in getting something to work, and that I’m part of something.’ – Lesley Sharp

‘You don’t go from being friends and work colleagues, working in a close environment, to then not speaking.’ – Rob Page

‘Carlos Queiroz and his colleagues have done so much for Team Melli.’ – Ali Daei

‘The modest three hours a day I spend with my colleagues is about right – I certainly couldn’t imagine going into quarantine with them.’ – Susanna Reid

‘We must stop being a party that allows briefings against colleagues.’ – Liz Kendall

‘I have been disappointed with the way the majority of my colleagues have approached war and peace over the entire time I’ve been in Congress.’ – Michael Capuano

‘I love all of my colleagues here at The Federalist, but everyone knows that David Harsanyi is my favorite. I will be forever grateful for the guidance and support he gave me when we started this enterprise. He is a rock. His work is consistent, productive, done to a high standard. He is supportive of his colleagues.’ – Mollie Hemingway

‘The effort to make quality early education accessible for all is a cause I am proud to fight for with my colleagues.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘I’m in favor of improving our bridges and roads, and am willing to work with our Democratic colleagues on a thoughtful and targeted approach.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘As colleagues, Shammi ji was my first co-actor and the hero of my debut film ‘Junglee’ in 1961. I met him for the first time at Kashmir’s Shalimar Bagh where we were filming the song ‘Kashmir ki kali hoon main.’ I was an excited teenager, fresh out of London College, and had pursued films against my mother’s wishes.’ – Saira Banu

‘I’m eager to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get things done for the people of California and the nation.’ – Alex Padilla

‘I’m proud to join my colleagues in introducing the BUILD GREEN Infrastructure and Jobs Act. This critical legislation will not only invest in clean energy and improve transportation, but it will also prioritize projects in underserved communities and create good-paying jobs for the American people.’ – Alex Padilla

‘I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to restore dignity and humanity to our immigration policies and to respectfully uphold America’s legacy as a nation of immigrants.’ – Alex Padilla

‘When I cook Thanksgiving in the Bon Appetit Test Kitchen, every tool I need is within arm’s reach, groceries are delivered, and colleagues know better than to talk to me when I have that look on my face.’ – Chris Morocco

‘I would rather have 1/4 of a cookie for four days than a big cookie on day one followed by three days with nothing – this has been documented by my colleagues.’ – Chris Morocco

‘We cannot equate white nationalist violence with what my colleagues on the right stated is ‘left-wing extremist violence.’ Equating a righteous movement for justice with hateful and racist white nationalism is outright ignorant and disingenuous on your part.’ – Cori Bush

‘I have had many friends and colleagues for decades, and for better or worse they know they can count on my word and that I say what I do and do what I say.’ – Sonja Morgan

‘Many of my friends and colleagues have told me to take up film direction.’ – Pratik Gandhi

‘I, along with my colleagues in the Republican Study Committee, are committed to standing up to China’s aggression.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘As an ardent defender of the Second Amendment, I will work aggressively with my House and Senate colleagues to make sure no attack on gun rights becomes law.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘Paying workers a decent level of sick pay means they can afford to isolate when they test positive for Covid and are less likely to spread the virus to their colleagues.’ – Wes Streeting

‘Linda Thomas-Greenfield is a veteran of the foreign service who is respected on both sides of the aisle and among her colleagues in the diplomatic corps.’ – Ben Ray Lujan

‘I’m humbled to have been named to Chair of the Communications Subcommittee, and I look forward to working with my Democratic and Republican colleagues to pass commonsense solutions that help the people of New Mexico.’ – Ben Ray Lujan

‘I look forward to helping our nation move forward and working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle for the betterment of America and the people of California’s 39th congressional district.’ – Young Kim

‘I will continue to do all I can to support Uyghurs and I hope my colleagues as well as U.S. companies and the international community joins me so we can hold the CCP accountable.’ – Young Kim

‘We must not allow Covid to turn us into a country of hypochondriacs, fearful of every minor symptom. Yes, of course if you may have a highly infectious deadly disease, you should not put your colleagues at risk, but let’s not pretend every cough is going to kill us.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘After my own trials and tribulations, I have become evangelical in my campaign to educate and advise young women not to leave starting a family until too late, advising colleagues to ‘get on with it’ as soon as possible.’ – Julia Hartley-Brewer

‘I often wonder: Will I be accepted for who I am? A gay man, an Afro-Latino, a millennial sometimes surrounded by older colleagues with more experience?’ – Ritchie Torres

‘I see players and caddies as being colleagues on tour, all part of the one family.’ – Shane Lowry

‘We work on the transfer market – like all our colleagues in Germany and Europe.’ – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

‘It is a special honour to be chosen by your colleagues as best player of the season.’ – Thorgan Hazard

‘As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, I look forward to working with my colleagues to strengthen ties with our allies, build on the success of the Trump Administration’s trade and peace deals and advocate for freedom and democracy around the globe.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘I’m honored to serve as an Assistant Whip for the Republican Conference and work with my colleagues to support policies that will improve the lives of our fellow Americans, while standing united against the Democrats’ far-left agenda when necessary.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘As the daughter of immigrants, I’m willing to work with my colleagues to implement common-sense policies, but it must start with securing our border, deporting those who have committed crimes and not rewarding those who have crossed our borders illegally by putting them ahead of immigrants who are following the rules.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘I’m looking forward to working with colleagues on both sides of the aisle along with the Biden Administration to advance the causes that the Hellenes hold so dear.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘My colleagues and I urged President Biden to impose crippling sanctions against Russia, halt the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and repeal his Executive Orders that hindered our energy production and security giving Russia and our adversaries more leverage.’ – Nicole Malliotakis

‘In the end, it’s the work my friends and colleagues at foundations do that matters the most. A more just world would shine a brighter light on them. In this world, I’m honored to be able to support their work.’ – Sam Bankman-Fried

‘We need to be vocal in our support of female colleagues who are pressing for a dramatic shift in the culture of Parliament.’ – Nick Boles

‘It has been a lonely task plugging the Norway option – Brexit via the European Economic Area – to my Conservative colleagues.’ – Nick Boles

‘Thanks to all my colleagues with whom I’ve had the pleasure to work with, that involves wearing the Barca crest on our chests day after day, for making me feel important within the group that we developed over all these years.’ – Victor Valdes

‘I’m lucky to have two colleagues like Casillas and Reina to work with and to help me improve.’ – Victor Valdes

‘We must not allow the U.K. to crash out of the E.U. without a deal and I will continue to work tirelessly with all colleagues to change the path our country is headed on.’ – Heidi Allen

‘For me, to be diva is to have an evening when you are on stage and you are in good form. To have respect for everybody – for colleagues, for the maestro, for the audience. And to give emotion while you sing. If you’re talented, you try to do the best you can. But you don’t make problems. I respect everybody. For me this is a diva.’ – Mirella Freni

‘For me and my colleagues who have done character roles all our lives, things don’t change so easily, but when people respect what we do, that’s ‘kaamyaabi’ for us.’ – Sanjay Mishra

‘I am someone who can work with colleagues, whom I am not even in talking terms with.’ – Himanshi Khurana

‘My colleagues on the other side of the aisle forget that while the Federal Government plays a role in securing elections, our Founding Fathers left the bulk of the responsibility to states and localities.’ – George Santos

‘I urge my colleagues to join me in this mission to block tyrannical and draconian measures from being utilized by the Federal Government. If a public health emergency has been declared, then the federal agency looking to impose the mandate must submit a report to Congress and highlight the intent as well as the research behind the vaccine.’ – George Santos

‘I urge my colleagues to join me to aggressively demand commonsense energy policies, to encourage due diligence and transparency from the decision makers, and to shore up our strategic reserves for the sake of our precious national security.’ – George Santos

‘To my colleagues in Congress: serving with you has been the honor of a lifetime – particularly during some of the darkest days in our nation’s history.’ – Dean Phillips

‘Isolation from our colleagues makes laying the foundations of trust and collaboration extremely difficult.’ – Dean Phillips

‘I will continue working with my colleagues to keep our families safe.’ – Dean Phillips

‘I urge more of my colleagues in both chambers and parties to join me in supporting the IDEA Full Funding Act to relieve financial burden from families and schools and to ensure a world class education for all students.’ – Dean Phillips

‘I am prepared to reach out to work with colleagues in the national interest, even if we have disagreed in the past.’ – Suella Braverman

‘I will never compromise my core, conservative principles, but I also understand that while my opinions may differ greatly from those of my Democratic colleagues in Congress, at the end of the day, we are all Americans. And we need to find ways to work together.’ – Mike Johnson

‘I am proud to join my colleagues in both parties in establishing a National Day of Civility to serve as a reminder that before we are Republicans and Democrats, we are first and foremost Americans.’ – Mike Johnson

‘Working in an Afro hairdresser from 14 was the best education. Through customers and colleagues I was exposed to adult life – breakups, breakdowns, unexpected pregnancies… It opened my eyes to sisterhood and the power of community. Plus, I got my hair done for free.’ – Judi Love