Citizens Quote by Dora Russell

We have seen a central government promote the power of labor-union bosses, and in turn be supported by that power, until it has become…

— Anonymous

No one in government should ever think that the citizens they work for can't or won't scrutinize their actions

— Roy Barnes

When you have a new government assume power, everyone, without exception, has to work for the benefit of the common good.

— Michel Temer

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle…

— Mitch Daniels

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

— Lane Kirkland

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

— Anthony Trollope

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're…

— Glenn Greenwald

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

— Dolores Huerta

If experience has taught me anything, its not to put ANYTHING past people in government.

— Edward Britton

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.

— William Weld

Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

— Roscoe Pound

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people…

— Alicia Garza