Lane Kirkland Quotes

• If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves.

  Lane Kirkland

  Funny, Money, Hard Work

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• We have come too far, - struggled too long, - sacrificed too much and have too much left to do, - to allow that which we have achieved for the good of all to be swept away without a fight. And we have not forgotten how to fight.

  Lane Kirkland

  Struggle, Fighting, Long

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• Don't believe that winning is really everything. It's more important to stand for something. If you don't stand for something, what do you win?

  Lane Kirkland

  Believe, Winning, Important

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• The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

  Lane Kirkland

  Numbers, Squares, People

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• My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

  Lane Kirkland

  People, Ink, Argument

  Quoted in David Olive Business Babble (1993).

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• To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot.

  Lane Kirkland

  Hearing, Lips, Harlots

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• The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

  Lane Kirkland

  Groups, Size, Murphys Law

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• The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

  Lane Kirkland

  Real, Political, Special

  "Robust Unionism: Innovations in the Labor Movement". Book by Arthur B. Shostak, p. 190, 1991.

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• The only way to convert a heathen is to travel into the jungle.

  Lane Kirkland

  Advice, Way, Heathen

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• We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

  Lane Kirkland

  Leadership, Bitterness, Staff

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• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  Lane Kirkland

  Country, Skills, Luxury

  The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.

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• The usefulness of a meeting is in inverse proportion to the attendance.

  Lane Kirkland

  Attendance, Proportion, Meetings

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• Fritz Mondale is not some synthetic Masked Marvel or Mystery Man. He is not made of silicon and micro-chip flakes. He is made of flesh and blood and brains.

  Lane Kirkland

  Men, Blood, Brain

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