Unions Quotes · Page 20

Matrimony was probably the first union to defy management.

— Red Ruffing

A happy union with wife and child is like the music of lutes and harps.

— Confucius

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

— Alexander Haig

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

— Barack Obama

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

— Jacques Delors

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

— Kevin O'Leary

We all need to rededicate ourselves to making America great and making it a more perfect union.

— Paul Ryan

Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that…

— C. Wright Mills

I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

— Ken Livingstone

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

— Tom Clancy

The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.

— Salmon P. Chase

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control…

— Sergei Ivanov

I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together. It was dangerous for business…

— Michelle Mone

Paisley has been and remains a greater threat to the Union than the Foreign Office and the Provisional IRA rolled into one.

— Enoch Powell

It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it…

— Ronald Reagan

Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have…

— Mitt Romney

If the present White House leadership runs the gauntlet of common sense and the people's will for peace and challenges us by…

— Dmitriy Ustinov

I think that we have refined greatly our notions of sovereignty in the EU. Its members consider themselves to be sovereign governments,…

— Mary Robinson

What began as a bitter dispute over Union and States' Rights, ended as a struggle over the meaning of freedom in America.…

— Bruce Catton

People are very independent. And what I have seen with all the unions is that you have members who, regardless of who…

— Lucy Flores

There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the…

— Milton Friedman

There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers…

— Immanuel Kant

Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which…

— Mark Steyn

But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all…

— Ronald Reagan

There must be a union between the spirit in wood and the spirit in man. The grain of the wood must relate…

— George Nakashima

Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and…

— Kent Nerburn

Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social…

— Mary Robinson

The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial…

— Otto von Bismarck

Also in contemporary Western society the union with the group is the prevalent way of overcoming separateness. It is a union which…

— Erich Fromm

The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist…

— Robertson Davies

I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace…

— Leon Jouhaux

I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those…

— Jacob Tomsky

It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they…

— Abraham Lincoln

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of…

— D. H. Lawrence

Italy is one of the eight major industrial nations. What will happen if a G-8 country within the European Union goes bankrupt?…

— Martin Schulz

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people…

— Kathleen Winsor

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority…

— Harold Ford, Jr

My first church had seven members in it, and I have to remember, the rent was $225 a month and I worked…

— T. D. Jakes

Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder…

— Nish Kumar