Unions Quotes · Page 8

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

— Al Franken

I am in the Chicago Carpenters Union. They are huge supporters of mine and of MMA.

— Clay Guida

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

— Hillary Clinton

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

— Joe Biden

We are not a nation, but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign states.

— John C. Calhoun

Don't be sad about the goodbyes! Because in many farewells, better unions are hidden!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I always thought a very strong anti-drug policy was a good thing for my union members.

— Stephen F. Lynch

Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

— George Meany

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our…

— Marilyn French

Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Unions are something wrestlers have been talking about for many years. We would probably wish there was a union, but you have…

— Booker T

The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they…

— Barbara Amiel

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

— Scott Walker

I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a…

— Bruce Springsteen

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

— Tim Harford

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not…

— Pope Francis

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the…

— Paddy Chayefsky

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union…

— Lauren Weisberger

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from…

— Samuel Sharpe

During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy…

— Thomas Sowell

Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes…

— Emerson Spartz

This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced…

— George W. Bush

“It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues…

— Yoweri Museveni

Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,…

— Henry Giroux

People have learned by bitter experience that the "European fraternal union of peoples" cannot be achieved by mere phrases and pious wishes,…

— Friedrich Engels

Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite…

— Rush Limbaugh

Finally, it was about how people treat one another. It was about human dignity. We forced the employers to treat us as…

— Harry Bridges

Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches.…

— Carl Sagan

Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that?…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real.…

— Cyril Connolly

The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.

— Eli Broad

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

— C. S. Lewis

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

— Tom Clancy

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

— Clive Lewis

The soul is like a pair of winged horses and a charioteer joined in natural union.

— Plato

In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.

— Anonymous

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

— John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon