Unions Quotes - Page 17

• I'm convinced that, in the long term, a monetary union includes a joint debt policy under strict, mutually agreed upon conditions.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Long, Debt, Joints

  "Europe Will Either Succeed or Fail Together". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• That the existence of the Soviet Union has an international revolutionary significance is a commonplace equally recognized by friends and foes.

  Leon Trotsky

  Revolutionary, Existence, Significance

  Source: www.marxists.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any other country.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Past, Years

  Source: www.marxists.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

  Leon Trotsky

  Country, Victory, Revolution

  Source: www.marxists.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Soviet Union needs thinking and critical friends, such as are capable not only of singing hymns in the hours of success, but of not shrinking in the hour of defeat and danger.

  Leon Trotsky

  Thinking, Hymns, Singing

  Source: www.marxists.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.

  Nyla Ali Khan

  Attitude, Fall, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Groupings of people that get together, think things through, come out to plan and so on, like unions or true political organizations, they've disintegrated. And people tend to be atomized - you get down to a society based on social units based on an atom - an atomic element - which is a person and their computer. Not a society that is going to be able to function freely and democratically. The tendency is there; it doesn't have to be, but its something to worry about.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Organization, People

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I came through medical school, it was very exciting because physicians were reaching out to each other, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and sort of helping to build bridges among, you know, people, people who were not allowing our government to pit us against each other and to actually take us to the brink of nuclear war. And Physicians for Social Responsibility wound up getting a Peace Prize, a Nobel Peace Prize, which they shared with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

  Jill Stein

  War, School, Responsibility

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Responsibility

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was probably one of the things that gave me a sense of possibility and allowed for me to see beyond the small community that I existed within. You know, I was making friends with young Soviet kids. this is during perestroika. You know, there's bread lines and vodka lines. The entire social structure of what was then the Soviet Union was radically different from what we know today.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Kids, Community, Lines

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.

  Allen W. Wood

  Revolution, Generations, Soviet Union

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nuclear Missiles, United States, Cuba

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When Cuba lost their fossil fuel pipeline when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990. Overnight they had no choice, they had to transition to clean energy, they didn't have any fuel to burn, and they also had to transition to a healthy food system, an organic system - their economy is crashing, this was not a planned transition. This was a crisis, but a crisis nonetheless, in which pollution went away. And it's very instructive to see what happened to their health.

  Jill Stein

  Choices, Healthy, Energy

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know, terrorism in Afghanistan had everything to do with the support for the mujahidin by Saudi Arabia and by the CIA that sought to create an international religious extremist group to fight the Soviet Union.

  Jill Stein

  Religious, Fighting, Extremist Groups

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Should Have, Should

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.

  Justin Adams

  Thinking, Ideas, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I spent the '80s in the Soviet Union and when I came to America it was '89 and I was in an immigrant bubble and we didn't have MTV or cable, so I kind of discovered the '80s when I was already older, maybe in college. And I continued to have this romantic obsession with all those films and there's this sound I hear in my head and it's kind of this bittersweet romantic, dark sound.

  Regina Spektor

  Dark, College, Mtv

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Donald Trump has a plan, that he laid out in Arizona, that will deal systematically with illegal immigration, beginning with border security, internal enforcement. It's probably why for the first time in the history of immigrations and customs enforcement, their union actually endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States, because they know they need help to enforce the laws of this country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Law, President

  Source: www.politico.com

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here I was in Estonia, doing a concert for 5,000 people, and not many people know the song My Way - Gorbachev in the 80s, My Way had just become a famous song, and [Mikhail] Gorbachev in a satirical, kind of cynical manner coined the term the Sinatra Doctrine and My Way was the song because the Baltic states in the Warsaw Pact wanted to go their own way and secede from the Soviet Union, so joking he says," Yeah, we've got the Sinatra Doctrine now."

  Robert Davi

  Song, People, Cynical

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, 'Davi’s Way' And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Class, Franklin, Made

  4 Copy quote

• I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• More than anyone else, Adolf Hitler completely understood the union between government propaganda and between - and advertising, that they were in some ways the same thing.

  Tim Wu

  Government, Way, Advertising

  Source: www.npr.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Countries will cooperate with each other, and are more likely to cooperate with each other when they share a common culture, as is most dramatically illustrated in the European Union. But other groupings of countries are emerging in East Asia and in South America. Basically, as I said, these politics will be oriented around, in large part, cultural similarities and cultural antagonism.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, America, East

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wouldn't rule out the possibility of Muslim or at least Arab countries developing some form of organization comparable to the European Union. I don't think that's very likely, but it conceivably could happen.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Thinking, Organization

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care, punish unions, demonize public servants, raise college tuition, and produce a harsh world of joblessness - all the while giving billions and huge bonuses, instead of prison sentences... to those bankers and investment brokers who were responsible for the 2008 meltdown of the economy and the loss of homes for millions of Americans.

  Henry Giroux

  Home, Loss, College

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source