John Sweeney Quotes

• When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

  John Sweeney

  Fall, Economic Inequality, Gaps

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Commitment

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• Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.

  John Sweeney

  Ideas, Creating, People

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• It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

  John Sweeney

  Money Laundering, Management, Structure

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• There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

  John Sweeney

  Growing, Globalization, Consensus

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• I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

  John Sweeney

  Powerful, Thinking, Economic Inequality

  "John J. Sweeney : Can the Vigor be Restored to America's Labor Movement?". Interview with Harry Bernstein, articles.latimes.com. October 29, 1995.

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• I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

  John Sweeney

  Thinking, Invincible, Wanted

  "Alcoholism Series: Former Congressman John Sweeney says getting sober was a matter of life and death". Interview with Patrick H. Donges, www.saratogian.com. March 13, 2011.

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• The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

  John Sweeney

  Communication, Church, Add

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• Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.

  John Sweeney

  Country, Real, Hard Work

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• The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

  John Sweeney

  Passion, Infuriating

  "'I can never again lose my temper on TV'". Interview with James Silver, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2007.

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• The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

  John Sweeney

  Pay, Administration, Legislation

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• We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

  John Sweeney

  Democracy, Progress, Agents

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• Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

  John Sweeney

  Nike, United States, Economy

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• Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

  John Sweeney

  Fighting, Impact, Order

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