Unions Quotes

My father had a fishing business in Aberdeen destroyed by the European Union and the Common Fisheries Policy.

My beloved grows right out of my own heart. How much more union can there be.

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union.

The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

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

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.

It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present society .

Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

On government & unions: the only thing worse than blind trust is blind mistrust.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

Owes unions who endorsed him; that's why he's in politics.

I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

Trade unions infringe upon the property rights of company owners.

Man and woman have each of them qualities and tempers in which the other is deficient, and which in union contribute to the common felicity.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

The States acceded to the Union.

I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?

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

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

We need to take on the teachers' union once and for all.

What he's saying is that a Trump presidency will address those kind of things head on without caving into the special interests like the teachers union, which Mrs. Clinton has completely sold out to.

There's a lot in common between the Trump phenomenon and the campaign for Britain to exit the European Union, known as Brexit.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

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

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

The reality is that no one can be forced to join a union against their will, and a union cannot take action against those who decide not to join their union.

[Russians] want to bring us down to make them feel better about the failure of the Soviet Union. I don't mean bring us down as in collapse, but bring us down a notch in a big way.

When you have powerful unions, you have a working class that is politicized.

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

The European Union that emerges from the Eurozone crisis is going to be a very different body. It will be transformed perhaps beyond recognition by the measures needed to save the Eurozone.

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever.

Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.

I think when everything is finally considered, I'll have a lot of support -- strong support -- not only from labor unions but from working people.

There's no point in just hankering for the big trade unions of the 1950s or '60s.

The heart of the People, North and South, is for the Union.