Workers Quotes

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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer… — Tom Peters
Over the next decade, cities and states across America will be compelled to tighten their belts as the really big bills - the pension bills… — John Podhoretz
Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job… — John Podhoretz
So, if you're doing good longform with talented people than you can step out and you can be the president or a construction worker and… — Amy Poehler
I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. — Vladimir Putin
Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation. — Robert Reich
The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat… — Adrienne Rich
The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by… — Adrienne Rich
This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better… — John D. Rockefeller
In the four decades after World War II, manufacturing jobs paid more than other jobs for given skills. But that is much less true today.… — Christina Romer
Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition… — Christina Romer
Now workers should have the right to join unions. But unions should not be forced upon workers. And unions should not have the power to… — Mitt Romney
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. — Andy Rooney
Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives. — Rachel Roy
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor. — Paul Ryan
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson
CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about. — Bernie Sanders
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and… — Margaret Sanger
Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more… — Margaret Sanger

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