Unions Quotes - Page 25

• I came up during the cold war, and during the cold war it was always possible with the then Soviet Union - the Russian leaders behaved carefully and predictably. They didn't engage in nuclear saber rattling. They were able to work with us and align their interests where possible.

  Ashton Carter

  War, Leader, Nuclear

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to make people feel like participants in a common project of autonomous law-giving. Much more political accountability, much more participation. That didn't happen, I think, because the movers and shakers were more concerned with economic union than political union.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Numbers, Law

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• We should have absolute control over our borders. If we want cheap labor to depress wages and disempower the unions, then we could have guest workers. But we have to face that issue. What is it that we want to do? Rather than not facing it, and having porous borders, and the effect is that it disempowers the unions.

  Mark Helprin

  Depressing, Should Have, Issues

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being beaten into the mold. And beaten sometimes hard enough so that if they don't fit, then they kill them. That's what happened in the Soviet Union and China.

  Mark Helprin

  People, Want, Mold

  Source: americasfuture.org

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• We have our differences with Russia. And some of those differences produce conflict. But by no means is this the Soviet Union. We have far more areas of cooperation with Russia than we have areas of conflict.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Mean, Russia, Differences

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• The French want to regain control of their own country. They want to determine the course of their own economy and their immigration policies. They want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union.

  Marine Le Pen

  Country, Law, Immigration

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• I want to destroy the EU, not Europe! I believe in a Europe of nation-states. I believe in Airbus and Ariane, in a Europe based on cooperation. But I don't want this European Soviet Union.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Europe, Want

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• I remember when the Cold War ended, how quickly the United States was swept by a nationalistic fervor and turned against Saddam Hussein. As soon as we lost our age-old enemy, the Soviet Union, we instantly created a new one.

  Connie Zweig

  War, Enemy, Age

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in the Soviet Union - who have conducted their arguments with their societies and its political arrangements through their art in subtle, oblique ways. They didn't always have the license to make bold pronouncements about freedom, democracy, Islam, and liberalism, but they exerted another kind of moral authority through their work.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Art, Past, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You would think that if neoliberals were in any way honest, after the collapse of the Soviet Union the first thing to do is get rid of the Red Army and the KGB, and build up the economy. Instead, they just get rid of the economy and keep the military and the KGB.

  David Graeber

  Military, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We had a world dominated by the Soviet Union on the one hand, and the Americans on the other hand. They called it the Cold War. But it wasn't cold. I am someone who comes from the third world. In the third world, the cold war wasn't cold. Millions had been killed. It was a proxy war.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  War, Hands, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People want their own laws to take precedence over those of the European Union. The French have understood that the EU does not live up to the utopia they were sold. It has distanced itself significantly from a democratic mode of operation.

  Marine Le Pen

  Law, People, Doe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Angela Merkel wants to impose her policies on others. This will lead to an explosion of the European Union.

  Marine Le Pen

  Want, Explosions, Policy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Jeremy Corbyn couldn't have won without Labour changing its leadership election rules in 2014, but which more importantly got rid of the electoral college that had given MPs a third of the say over who leads the party. That's why Diane Abbott came last when she ran for leader in 2010, even though in the absolute number of votes she came third out of five. It's one of those wonderful historical ironies that the change to the rules was a victory for the Labour right, the result of a push back against the unions who had been asserting themselves more forcefully within the party.

  Alex Nunns

  Party, College, Mps

  Source: salvage.zone

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• The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

  Joseph Addison

  Lying, Secret, Mind

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• One of the aims of sexual union is procreation - the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

  Mortimer Adler

  Creation, Aim, Reproduction

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• Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

  Aeschylus

  Passion, Men, Victory

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• A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Want, States, Members

  "Catalonia warns EU that million-strong march cannot be ignored" by Giles Tremlett, www.theguardian.com. September 13, 2012.

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• Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Conformity, States, Legislation

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• The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe.

  Catharine Beecher

  Ties, Principles, Harmony

  Catharine Esther Beecher (1872). “Woman's Profession as Mother and Educator: With Views in Opposition to Woman Suffrage”, p.188

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• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  Tony Blair

  Strong, Winning, Views

  "Meet the new Labour adviser: Tony Blair" by Juliette Jowit, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Mean, Boss

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• If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

  Eli Broad

  Jobs, Poor Management, Pages

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• It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Country, Judging, Twelve

  Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven (2002). “Joseph Brodsky: Conversations”, p.98, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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