Unions Quotes - Page 11

• Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Forever, Liberty, Saving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.72, Penguin

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• In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.

  John McCain

  Government, Average, Games

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• These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Perfect, People, Toilets

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• We're not spending enough money, but probably we let the teachers unions set curriculas which don't teach them the right things. There's not emphasis on the ...the basic learning that you need if you're going to go on in a college and into post-graduate work.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Teacher, College, Needs

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• The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it ceases to "black out" or "forget" various changes of state (such as dreaming and deep sleep), and instead recognizes a "constant Consciousness" or ever-present nondual Awareness, the union (and transcendence) of individual finite self and infinite Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Dream, Sleep, Self

  Ken Wilber (2014). “The Fourth Turning: Imagining the Evolution of an Integral Buddhism”, p.41, Shambhala Publications

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• Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

  Arne Duncan

  School, Working Together, Innovative

  "Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate Lackey". Interview with Jesse Hagopian, progressive.org. January 1, 2016.

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• The one glaring issue I have with the modeling industry and the fashion industry is that there is no union for young women and when I went into acting, the way young kids are protected, there must be a mandatory union or regulation, it just has to be done.

  Jaime King

  Fashion, Kids, Issues

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.

  Damian Barr

  Independent, Thinking, Scotland

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico.

  Charles Bowden

  Liars, Army, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Certainly I'm participating in an already established and awesome tradition, but it's a tradition that sort of shoots up and through the mainstream in short bursts and pulses and then gets diluted. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson shot up and then got sucked back down underground under more entertaining and less radical versions of body and self - poetry and prose that posited bodies in more perfect union with good citizenship.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Self, Perfect, Body

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers.

  Nelson DeMille

  Writing, Thinking, Spy

  Talk City Network Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2000.

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• The trade unions in the UK are campaigning around zero-hours contracts, which isn't about feminism, but it's a feminist issue. Women are affected by zero-hours contracts, and the recession has and is affecting women more than men.

  Rachel Holmes

  Zero, Men, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Thatcher had broken the miners' union, all but crushed the Labour Party, dramatically cut back the welfare state, even flirted with a poll tax. In the circles I ran in, Reagan was mocked as a childish dolt. Thatcher was despised.

  Jon Weisman

  Party, Cutting, Circles

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.

  Debra Dean

  New York, Artist, Careers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My daughter Meredith Moon from my second wife has a band that does Appalachian music, with five-strong banjo, clawhammer style. I may have to direct her somewhere. Meredith was my middle name. I would have to direct her because I am always directing something. She's in the musician's union and she is only 21. Your kids surprise you.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Daughter, Strong, Kids

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

  James Vance

  Lonely, Men, Shadow

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The UK is the number one destination in European Union for inward investment, the World Bank has ranked the UK as the sixth easiest place in he world to do business, so any organisation that makes promises about investment in the UK should live up to those promises.

  James Brokenshire

  Numbers, Promise, Inward

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On the one hand the world is getting more integrated and we should not dismiss social values as "Western" when they are actually modern values. On the other hand, individual countries have their own history and their own evolution. Trade unions, for example, don't play the same role in China as they do in Europe or the US.

  Zhang Xin

  Country, Hands, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Why doesn't anyone address the substantive question of why other states blatantly interfere in Israel's internal affairs? Israel does not meddle in the affairs of other states in a similar way, so why do other countries feel entitled to do this to Israel? These actions violate Israeli sovereignty and I expect European Union member states to act differently.

  Ayelet Shaked

  Country, Israel, Addresses

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.

  Sara Paretsky

  Writing, Self, Voice

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• The most significant impact is what it does in terms of the integrity of the legislative process and the executive process, as opposed to what it does for campaigns. But to remove this unheard of process in the 1990s, where members of Congress are being pushed and shoved every Tuesday to ask for $100,000, $500,000, a million dollars from corporations, unions, and individuals, this was never allowed in American history.

  Russ Feingold

  Integrity, Impact, Tuesday

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. April 30, 2002.

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• As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world.

  Barack Obama

  Smart, People, Safety

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• We need to move forward, from the common currency to the banking union to a common financial policy and, in the middle-term, to a common foreign and security policy. That will take time, because we need to figure out how to deal with those countries that don't always want a more tightly integrated European Union.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Country, Moving Forward, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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