Unions Quotes
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Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel Gompers
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The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'
Albert Shanker
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I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.
Richard Ojeda
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
Gavin Newsom
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
Frances O'Grady
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
Brown Campbell
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I certainly support civil unions.
Carly Fiorina
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Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union
Francois Mitterrand
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
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Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.
Abraham Clark
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Right to work doesn't eliminate unions. It makes them more responsible and accountable to their members on the front lines.
Eric Greitens
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... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.
Kalle Lasn
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Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.
George Washington
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Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had.
William Lewis Safir
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Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
Tony Kushner
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I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
Barack Obama
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The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
Aldrich Ames
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Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.
Jack Kirby
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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
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If we leave the European Union, yes there will be bumps in the road, inevitably, but we will be in a better position to deal with them.
Michael Gove
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I'm against the European Union, but I am very much in favor of Europe.
Geert Wilders
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Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
James Cook
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Marriage is one of the most sacred human institutions. I asked our Senators, as many South Dakotans have done, to protect marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
Mike Rounds