Unions Quotes - Page 30

• The perfection of our union, especially our commitment to equality of opportunity, has been a story of constant striving to live up to our Founding principles. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant when he said, 'In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve.'

  Paul Ryan

  Commitment, Opportunity, Giving

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Saving the American Idea". dailysignal.com. October 26, 2011.

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• As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Religious, Europe, Leader

  "Rediscovering Religious Values in the Market Economy" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views.

  Fritz Sauckel

  Numbers, Views, Political

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• The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.

  Arthur Scargill

  Leadership, Party, Europe

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• I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

  Charlie Sheen

  Lying, Heart, Disrespect

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• Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, May, Be Good

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• In the 1980s America reacted to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. We supported a war that left a nation torn to pieces. And as the last Soviet tank left the country, so did we.

  Simon Sinek

  Country, War, America

  "Could Haiti Become A Terrorist Haven? Only America Can Decide" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2010.

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• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  People, Soviet Union, Soviet

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• Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary.

  Thomas Sowell

  Suicide, Bombers, Nuclear

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• I love creating partnerships; I love not having to bear the entire burden of the creative storytelling, and when I have unions like with George Lucas and Peter Jackson, it's really great; not only do I benefit, but the project is better for it.

  Steven Spielberg

  Creating, Creative, Benefits

  "Oscars Q&A: Steven Spielberg On 'War Horse's Four-Legged Actors, 3D And Lessons Learned". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

  Joseph Stalin

  Outstanding, Soviet Union, Ussr

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• The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

  Andy Stern

  Jobs, Government, Class

  "Exit Interview: SEIU Head Andy Stern Steps Down". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 15, 2010.

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• The American Way is an amalgam of our compassion, our strengths, our failings and our attempts to build a better world, a more perfect union.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Compassion, Perfect, World

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• In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they'd never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

  James Surowiecki

  Country, Heart, Done

  "State of the Unions". www.newyorker.com. January 17, 2011.

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• In the old days, when you took out a mortgage, it was probably through a local bank or a credit union, and whoever gave you your loan held on to it for life. If you lost your job or got too sick to work and suddenly had trouble making your payments, you could call a human being and work things out.

  Matt Taibbi

  Jobs, Sick, Credit

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• Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

  Greg Walden

  Power, Corporations, Enough

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• We shall not yield to violence. We shall not be deprived of union freedoms. We shall never agree with sending people to prison for their convictions.

  Lech Walesa

  Yield, People, Violence

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• This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

  Lech Walesa

  Summer, Rights, People

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• What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

  Lech Walesa

  Independent, People, Association

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• So why am I facing a recall election? Simple: the big government union bosses from Washington want their money. They don't like the fact that I did something fundamentally pro-worker; something that's truly about freedom.

  Scott Walker

  Simple, Government, Boss

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• My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

  Scott Walker

  Leader, Boss, Way

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• The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at.

  Simone Weil

  Intellectual, Today, Socialism

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.22, Routledge

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• Margaret Thatcher made tough decisions. She put people out of work and she stood up to labor unions and she did a lot of things that I did not like.

  Harvey Weinstein

  People, Decision, Tough

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2011.

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• When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

  Lawrence Welk

  Country, Parent, North Dakota

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• No persons professing to be Christians should enter the marriage relation until the matter has been carefully and prayerfully considered from an elevated standpoint, to see if God can be glorified by the union.

  Ellen G. White

  Christian, Matter, Should

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