American Workers Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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 Recovery plan will put money in the pockets of the American worker, create and save millions of new jobs and invest in crucial areas such as health care, education, energy independence and a new infrastructure.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Recovery, Independence

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• According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Mean, Government, Average

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• While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

  Ed Pastor

  Wages, Reconstruction, Goods

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• Opening our borders to a flood of illegal immigrants is deliberate ... It's time to impeach; and on behalf of American workers and legal immigrants of all backgrounds, we should vehemently oppose any politician on the left or right who would hesitate in voting for articles of impeachment.

  Sarah

  Voting, Borders, Politician

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• I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.

  Ed Pastor

  Jobs, Support, Benefits

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• [We need] to choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn't that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Nice, Skills

  Source: time.com

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• America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.

  Christopher Bond

  Jobs, America, Battle

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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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• American workers are first rate.

  Christopher Dodd

  Firsts, Rate, Workers

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• I am totally in favor of trade. But I want trade deals for our country that create more jobs and higher wages for American workers.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Wages

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African-American worker, the Latino worker. She's going to do nothing. Give me your vote, she says, on November 8th. And then she'll say, so long, see you in four years. That's what it is.

  Donald Trump

  Years, Long, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

  Rachel Martin

  Effort, Trying, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.

  Mike Pence

  War, Struggle, Obamacare

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.

  Linda Chavez

  Heyday, Cards, Literature

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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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• 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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• We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

  Sarah Palin

  Energy, Needs, Source

  Republican Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 3 September 2008, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota

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