Unions Quotes - Page 28

• What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

  James P. Hoffa

  Country, Trends, Want

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• My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked for Union Carbide and took the check I made from work to pay for the rent to keep the church open.

  T. D. Jakes

  Church, Pay, Months

  "Lessons On Forgiveness From T.D. Jakes". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 5, 2012.

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• The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

  Jack Kemp

  Country, Development, World

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• As the President reviewed the state of the union and unveiled his second-term agenda, he fell short of adequately explaining how he intends to set America back on the course of fiscal responsibility and secure the fiscal health of the nation.

  Ron Kind

  Responsibility, America, President

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• Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Europe, World

  "Obama Is Average". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

  Tony Kushner

  Humans, Human Society, Susceptible

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• The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Class, History

  Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (2012). “Essential Works of Lenin: "What Is to Be Done?" and Other Writings”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

  Al Lewis

  Agriculture, North Carolina, Workers

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• Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Hollywood, Actors

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• Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did more to liberate people by defeating the Soviet Union and freeing eastern Europe than the Obamas, the Clintons, and Kerrys of this world ever have. They were all on the wrong side of that debate.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Europe, People, World

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• Unions are the result of profit seekers. Unions are the way the average guy gets even with evil corporateers. The unions are godsends. The unions have a special status, because they represent the rising up of the average man against the evil corporateers and profiteers.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Average, Rising Up

  "For-Profit Medicine Under Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

  James Longstreet

  Veterans Day, Our Veterans, Long

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• Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

  James Madison

  Confidence, Religious, Sentiments

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Yoga, Reality, Mind

  Ramana Maharshi (2014). “Essence of Instruction (Upadesa Saram): The Pine Forest Revisited”, p.26, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

  John Major

  Thinking, Dropping, Unlikely

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 09, 2011.

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Prejudice, Done, Determined

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

  Angela Merkel

  Russia, Today, Soviet Union

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• At this time - we're in a dramatic crisis - euro bonds are precisely the wrong answer. They lead us into a debt union, not a stability union. Each country has to take its own steps to reduce its debt.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Wrong Answers, Debt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.

  Karen Mills

  Priorities, President, Addresses

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• Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

  Michael Moore

  Class, Middle, Middle Class

  "Happy F**kin’ Labor Day!" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2010.

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• I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

  Michael Moore

  Age, Directors, Care

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• If your bank took bailout money, take your money out of that bank and put it in a credit union. Credit unions are owned by the people who have their money in the credit union.

  Michael Moore

  People, Credit, Bailouts

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• This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

  Michael Moore

  Successful, Wings, Problem

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• Castro couldn't even go to the bathroom unless the Soviet Union put the nickel in the toilet.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Toilets, Bathroom, Nickels

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• We plan to pick up another five seats in the Senate and hold the House through redistricting through 2012. And rather than negotiate with the teachers’ unions and the trial lawyers and the various leftist interest groups, we intend to break them.

  Grover Norquist

  Teacher, House, Groups

  "Grover Norquist: The Soul of the New Machine" by Michael Scherer, www.motherjones.com. January 2004.

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