Workers Quotes · Page 39

We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not…

— Paula Jean Swearengin

We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

— Hillary Clinton

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the…

— John B. S. Haldane

Since God is the one who calls people to their work, the worker becomes a steward who serves God.

— Leland Ryken

To our health care workers and essential employees: Thank you for everything you are doing.

— London Breed

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

— Sinclair Lewis

I receive letters from workers, from secretaries. . . . They are the most interesting ones.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

This is a pattern-bargaining industry, like railroads. You need to pay market to get a contract at all, and without contracts, you…

— Oscar Munoz

I think acting is a gift. I look at someone like Ben Kingsley, and hes incredibly charismatic, even when hes not acting.…

— Jonathan Jackson

I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to…

— Rick Santorum

Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials…

— Scott McClellan

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of…

— Edmund White

Under chattel slavery and feudalism, exploitation was concrete and personalized in the producer's relationship with his master. The slave and peasant knew…

— Kevin Carson

The backwoodsmen are muttering about making Britain's draconian union laws - already among the toughest in Europe - harsher still. And parts…

— Frances O'Grady

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a full range of matters to include the work hours you…

— Stephen R. Gregg

Multitudes of people who expect to go to Heaven will go to a Hell of torment. Thousands of "good" people, "moral" people,…

— John R. Rice

At Wal-Mart, a co-worker once advised me that, although I had a lot to learn, it was also important not to "know…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP…

— Bernie Sanders

Because it's unacceptable that the aid worker's chauffeur only speaks his own tribal language, an applicant is needed who also speaks English…

— James Shikwati

In Germany, many other countries, college tuition is free. Why isn't free in America? Why do we have the highest rate of…

— Bernie Sanders

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing…

— Nancy Pelosi

I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor…

— Michael Yates

Long distances used to be a moat that both insulated and isolated people from workers on the other side of the world.…

— Andy Grove

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

— Harold Wilson

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess…

— Tim Ferriss

Tamil Nadu has emerged as second only to Maharashtra in having most number of industrial units, first in number of workers, third…

— J. Jayalalithaa

Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic…

— John Lennon

Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that…

— Peter Schiff

President Biden's decision to rejoin the failed Paris Climate Accord props up our adversaries at the expense of American workers.

— Bill Hagerty

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers…

— Leonard Boswell

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

— Robert Wyatt

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension…

— Kenneth Rogoff

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

— Tom DeMarco

New Mexico's farmers and ranchers are essential workers who deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

— Ben Ray Lujan

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

— William J. Clinton

My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was devoted and…

— Carmen Dell'Orefice

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

— Tom Perez

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

— Mahatma Gandhi