Workers Quotes - Page 38

• This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Eight, People

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• We need to be protecting American citizens who are here, out of work, and hurting today-minorities, Blacks and Whites and all colors and races that are hurting today with high unemployment, but we seem to be more focused on how we can ram through this Senate a bill that would legalize millions and create an even more robust guest worker program. There are not enough jobs now. Give me a break.

  Jeff Sessions

  Hurt, Jobs, Race

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• Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Depressing, Hurt, Jobs

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• A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Success, Work

  Joseph Conrad, J. H. Stape, Andrew Busza (2004). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

  George J. Borjas

  Immigration, Doe, Wealth

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• The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce.

  Jerry Jasinowski

  Way, Bonus, Growing

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• We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

  Abul Kalam Azad

  Religious, Communication, Leader

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• Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Future, Science, Ideas

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• The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce; it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Success, Hard Work, Science

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• I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage and have barely tolerable working conditions because there are sufficient undocumented workers willing to accept those terms. If we care about low-income workers in this country, we need to create pressure to improve their economic condition by reducing the supply of unauthorized workers.

  Maria Echaveste

  Country, Working Conditions, Low Income

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• We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

  Barack Obama

  Cities, Mind Blowing, Secret

  "Obama Celebrates Ramadan: 'Islam Has Contributed To The Character Of Our Country'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 26, 2013.

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• Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms, and in hordes of hungry people, tramping the streets and seeking jobs in vain. Our workers may never see a tax bill, but they pay. They pay in deductions from wages, in increased cost of what they buy, or - as now - in broad unemployment throughout the land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Men, Land

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1937, Volume 6".

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• You should accordingly exercise your mind to remember your friends, relatives, and fellow-workers to determine if they are in need. As you remember each one so shall you in turn intercede for them. If in interceding on their behalf your spirit remains cold and dry, then you know you are not to pray for them.

  Watchman Nee

  Prayer, Exercise, Mind

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.584, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Reforms to our complex and dysfunctional immigration system should not in any way favor those who came here illegally over the millions of applicants who seek to come here lawfully. Additionally, the framework carves out a special exception for agricultural workers that has little justification.

  Mike Lee

  America, Safety, Goal

  "On Senate Immigraton Proposal, Bipartisan Sponsors Claim Momentum For Uphill Battle" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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• A guest worker program should help farmers who are willing to pay a fair wage for law-abiding, dependable workers - not punish them ... And for this reason I support replacing the H-2A program and implementing new policies that will bring our illegal agricultural workers out of the shadows, as a first step in the process of overhauling our nation's immigration system.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Law, Support, Shadow

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• Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, New York, Cheer

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Views, May

  Philip Yancey (2007). “Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference? Six Sessions on Our Relationship With God”, p.96, Zondervan

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• Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

  David A. Morse

  Safety, Justice, Motto

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• Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.

  Ruth McKenney

  Struggle, Perfect, Long

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• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Shoes, White

  Msnbc live with Cenk Uygur, www.nbcnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Struggle, Tired, Mouths

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• Service to a just cause rewards the worker with more real happiness and satisfaction than any other venture of life.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Life, Happiness, Real

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• Even sleepers are workers and collaborators on what goes on in the universe.

  Heraclitus

  Sleep, Insomnia, Goes On

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• All political movements are basically anti-creative - since a political movement is a form of war. "There's no place for impractical dreamers around here," that's what they always say. "Your writing activities will be directed, kindly stop horsing around." "As for the smoking of marijuana, it is the exploitation for the workers." Both favor alcohol and are against pot.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Writing, Marijuana

  William S. Burroughs, Allen Hibbard (1999). “Conversations with William S. Burroughs”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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