George Meany Quotes

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

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• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • America
  • Support

• Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Experience
  • Satisfaction

• Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I really thank my parents for giving me the good sense to not get into anything wrong. There are many people around who like controversies, and I actually wonder how do they do it. I don't have the courage to get into controversies. There are people who love it; I find it silly.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • People
  • Parents
  • Like

• Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Open-minded

• I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Earth
  • Car
  • Truck

• All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Long
  • Words
  • Beginning

• A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • School
  • America
  • Change

• It's actually harder to write a fun song.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Write

• Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Women
  • Stand
  • Lib

• Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Job

• It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Children
  • Duty

• Teachers alone can't educate young people.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Alone
  • Young

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• Villains are fun to play.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Villains

• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • War
  • Peace
  • Last

• Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul

• Since the middle of the twentieth century, our understanding of the American past has been revolutionized, in no small part because of our altered conceptions of the place of race in the nation's history.

  

  Drew Gilpin Faust
  • American
  • History
  • Past

• The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Freedom
  • Lying
  • Facts

• It is no use telling me there are bad aunts and good aunts. At the core, they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Good
  • Bad

• We all have our own narrative of what human trafficking is supposed to be, but if you do a little research, human trafficking happens, in many different forms and shapes, right in our backyard.

  

  Du Yun
  • Different

• There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Strange
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Pigeonhole

• The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

  

  George Meany
  • Freedom
  • Americans
  • Persistent