William Safire Quotes


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


Citations

Safire, William. "On Language; The Collegial Colleague." The New York Times, The New York Times Company, 5 May 1985, Section 6, p. 14.

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William Safire
William Safire
  • Born: December 17, 1929
  • Died: September 27, 2009
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Author, Columnist, Lexicographer, Journalist, Political Speechwriter

William Lewis Safir, better known as William Safire (/ˈsæfaɪər/), was an American author, columnist, journalist, and presidential speechwriter. He was a long-time syndicated political columnist for The New York Times and wrote the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine about popular etymology, new or unusual usages, and other language-related topics.