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Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. -- Christopher Hitchens
But then southern hemisphere teams are more skilful than their northern hemisphere counterparts, which means games can be easier to referee. -- Alan Lewis
There is no disputing the fact that American consumers pay 30 to 300 percent more for the same prescription drugs as our counterparts in Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world. -- Michael K. Simpson
If Turkey is prepared to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, then its leaders can proceed immediately to direct dialogue with its counterparts in Armenia to define a common vision for the future. -- Mark Foley
Millions of public workers have become a kind of privileged new class - a new elite, who live better than their private sector counterparts. Public servants have become the public's masters. No wonder the public is upset. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope that one day their wages would be on par with that of their male counterparts. -- Rosa DeLauro
I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations. -- Hillary Clinton
Language is the picture and counterpart of thought. -- Mark Hopkins
The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I found that women entrepreneurs earn 50% less than their male counterparts. -- Warren Farrell
We've got a lot of pressure going. This is for my Latin counterpart. -- Bobby Bonilla
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. -- Paul Watzlawick
When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart. -- Camille Pissarro
Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts. -- Stephen F. Lynch
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. -- Mark Haddon
When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language -- Leonard Sweet
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history. -- Allen Weinstein
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought. -- Marlo Thomas
This most dangerous enemy is the American counterpart of the British Fabian Socialist, who denies that he is a Socialist and operates behind a mask which he calls National Planning. -- John T. Flynn
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. -- Tarja Halonen
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Just as the right to speak and the right to refrain from speaking are complementary components of a broader concept of individual freedom, so also the individual's freedom to choose his own creed is the counterpart of his right to refrain from accepting the creed established by the majority. -- John Paul Stevens
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different. -- Viola Davis
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe. -- James P. Cannon
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies. -- Carl Lewis
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not. -- Mark McKinnon
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact. -- John Tyndall
I want to be the first Pakistani, like some of our counterparts in India, to really go out and show that we Pakistanis can even be successful outside Pakistan. -- Mian Muhammad Mansha
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
Rich people in poor places want to show off their wealth. And their less affluent counterparts feel pressure to fake it, at least in public. Nobody wants the stigma of being thought poor. -- Virginia Postrel
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesn't mean relinquishing one's rights. It means engaging with one's counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. -- Hassan Rouhani
All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success. -- Troy Polamalu
Research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. -- Dee Dee Myers
In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor. -- Jessica Valenti
But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution. -- Dee Dee Myers
I think my Latino culture has equipped me with a different point of view than the rest of my counterparts, and seeing things from a different angle has helped me a lot. I feel very proud of my culture, of my Latino heritage. -- Nina Garcia
Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance. -- Barry Unsworth
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the hot sun and cast their ballots. Any misguided attempt to nullify or steal their votes will evoke a strong reaction from them. -- George Ayittey
Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts. -- Jackie Speier
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. -- Jodi Picoult
Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts. -- Martin Jacques
I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written. -- Sandra Bullock
None of my counterparts in Europe interferes in politics. -- Margrethe II of Denmark
No one disputes that online businesses offer much more variety than their analog counterparts. -- Anita Elberse
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts. -- Anna Funder
I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully. -- Andre Previn
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. -- John le Carre
Whatever the reason, American Muslims appear far less inclined to support the global jihad than their European counterparts. -- Timothy Noah
I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts. -- Barack Obama
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. -- Mark Hyman, M.D.
A YA heroine does not have to pick up a weapon nor wear men's clothing to be equal to her male counterparts. -- Celine Kiernan
Paprika is evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox. -- Manohla Dargis
When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me. -- Victoria Pendleton
There was no comparison between [American troops] and the Russian combatants we fought in Afghanistan, who were braver and more patient than their American counterparts. -- Osama bin Laden
Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts. -- Faye Wattleton
Poor kids are much more likely to become sick than their richer counterparts, but much less likely to have health insurance. Talk about a double whammy. -- Anna Quindlen
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to. -- Pankaj Mishra
Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree. -- Anna Maria Chavez
I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies. -- Samina Baig
When I tell my American counterparts that my budget was $200,000 per episode, they burst out laughing. To us that's a big production, to them it's a guerrilla shoot. -- Gideon Raff
In a world where people are equal, I feel it's important to have strong male characters, counterparts. Equality is important. It's about compatibility and compassion. And it's amazing. -- Haifaa al-Mansour
Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies. -- Jonathan Zittrain
For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine. -- Fredric Wertham
Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. -- Tom Vilsack
You have the intelligence front and the engagement front. On the intelligence front, the French are better than many of their European counterparts. But they are really challenged in two specific ways. -- Michael Leiter
If commissars in Soviet Russia agreed to subordinate themselves to state power, they could at least plead fear in extenuation. Their counterparts in more free and open societies can plead only cowardice. -- Noam Chomsky
I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they're women, they're in positions because they're intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally. -- Rand Paul
A constructive approach to diplomacy doesnt mean relinquishing ones rights. It means engaging with ones counterparts, on the basis of equal footing and mutual respect, to address shared concerns and achieve shared objectives. -- Hassan Rouhani
The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroin or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies, in book shops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den. -- Phillip Adams
In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community. -- Robert Mueller

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