American Workers Quotes

• No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country... By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Mean, Labor Day

  Franklin Roosevelt's Statement on the National Industrial Recovery Act, June 16, 1933.

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• If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Hate, Liars

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• Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

  Steve Israel

  Senior, President, Poverty

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• I'm going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

  Donald Trump

  Action, Protect, Workers

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We will end the politics of profit. We will end the rule of special interests. We will end the raiding of our jobs by other countries. We will end the total disenfranchisement of the American voter and the American worker.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Special

  Source: time.com

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• We can get America moving again, put on top of that the kind of trade deals that'll put the American worker first, and you've got a prescription for real growth.

  Mike Pence

  Real, Moving, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Our victory [2016] was a victory and a win for conservative values. And our victory was a win for everyone who believes it's time to stand up for America, to stand up for the American worker, and to stand up for the American flag.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Winning, America

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Average, Time Management, Fifty

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• The American consumer is also the American worker, and if we don't do something to protect our manufacturing base here at home, it is going to be hard to buy any retail goods.

  Lindsey Graham

  Home, Retail, Reconstruction

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• If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Average, Goal, Typical

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• Unfair trade agreements, passed by both Republicans and Democrats, have sent millions of jobs to other countries. We need to stop this hemorrhaging and find ways for American workers to compete in the new market.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Jobs, Agreement

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• Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Government, America

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981".

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• We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

  Jesse Jackson

  Wisdom, Giving, Politics

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• The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.

  Lane Kirkland

  Country, Skills, Luxury

  The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.

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• The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you'd use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.

  Hanna Rosin

  Teacher, Couple, School

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• I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

  James P. Hoffa

  Apologizing, Workers, Standing

  "Hoffa's Tea Party Rhetoric Too Violent?". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2011.

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• At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

  Ted Rall

  Boss, Respectful, Workers

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• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  Ted Strickland

  Home, Risk, Pioneers

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

  Steven Rattner

  Impact, Income, Benefits

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• Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

  Richard Neal

  Be Good, Trade, American Business

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• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Shoes, White

  Msnbc live with Cenk Uygur, www.nbcnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• We need to fight protectionism with everything that we have because when there's a level playing field and when you have open markets and when free trade is flourishing, American workers, American farmers, Americans are going to benefit.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Fighting, Needs, Level Playing Field

  Source: www.cnbc.com

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• A survey says that American workers work the first three hours every day just to pay their taxes. So that's why we can't get anything done in the morning: We're government workers.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• 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 between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.

  Christina Romer

  Government, Competition, Wages

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• It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

  Elaine Chao

  Giving, Choices, Levels

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