Unions Quotes · Page 8

Union and Communion: this is the essence of Christianity.

— Heidi Baker

There is no future for the people of Europe other than in union.

— Jean Monnet

My childhood in the Soviet Union was not terrible, it was very joyful.

— Jaak Kilmi

History knows no greater display of courage than that shown by the people of the Soviet Union.

— Henry L. Stimson

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

— Jimmy Hoffa

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

— Angela Merkel

Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.

— Dawn Foster

“Unions gave us the forty-hour workweek, the weekend, and the middle class.”

— Al Franken

The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies…

— Noam Chomsky

I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic…

— William S. Burroughs

Our union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

— James Buchanan

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone…

— Michael Moore

Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations.

— Charles Duhigg

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

— Henry James

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving…

— Theresa May

Even if you're not a union member, you've likely benefited from the hard-fought advancements our unions spearheaded: Have you taken a sick…

— Elissa Slotkin

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of…

— Abraham Lincoln

Local prosecutors work alongside local police officers on a regular basis and are therefore conflicted when it comes to prosecuting those same…

— Al Sharpton

I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before…

— Robert Byrd

When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the…

— William Hague

The fruits of this profound union with Jesus are marvelous: our whole being is transformed by the grace of the Holy Spirit:…

— Pope Francis

We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation,…

— David Cameron

The course of the line we indicated as forming our grandest terrestrial fold [along the shores of Japan] returns upon itself. It…

— Charles Lapworth

In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more…

— Noam Chomsky

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

In the current environment, attributing low student performance to teacher tenure is one of the great unproven causal links out there. The…

— Nicholas Lemann

The preamble to the Constitution states: "We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish…

— P. J. O'Rourke

And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against…

— Alan Moore

I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and…

— Ben Affleck

Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long…

— Brian Michael Bendis

You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With…

— Sinclair Lewis

Nationalism is war. - in arguing to strengthen the federal powers of the European Union

— Francois Mitterrand

Such pushy people, the school union chiefs.It's almost not worth the campaign donations. Almost.

— Hillary Clinton

All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

— Nicolas Sarkozy

Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

— Aneurin Bevan

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

— Thomas Jefferson

In the 1980s, Thatcher hacked away at our trade unions and abolished the Greater London Council.

— Clive Lewis

The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ.

— C. S. Lewis