When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

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

Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

Merry Christmas!

There are no secrets that time does not reveal.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

The nagual gives you the unknown; it gives you reality; it leads you to the totality of yourself.

In that way, as an actor in particular, you're powerless. And so in that way as an actor in particular you can't make mistakes.

You got to live before you can afford to die.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.