Unions Quotes - Page 40

• In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

  Jimmy Smits

  College, Years, Community

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, America, Appreciate

  Barack Obama's Remarks at Strasbourg Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2009.

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• Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Iran

  "McCain criticizes Obama on foreign policies". www.nytimes.com. May 20, 2008.

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• It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

  John Leguizamo

  Blue, Class, People

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• I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

  Saffron Burrows

  Thinking, Movement, Interest

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• I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of that joy. ... I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Heaven, Vision

  "Bertrand Russell's Best".

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• [A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.

  Barack Obama

  Paris, Secret, Politics

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.274, Canongate Books

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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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• GLHR... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.

  Naomi Klein

  Impact, Media, Style

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• It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.

  George Blake

  Country, Kgb, High Standards

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• KGB was inseparable part of the Soviet Union and the whole structure of the Soviet society. We believe that the achievements of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet society, it's main achievements until the split in 1991, it was at the same time the main achievements of the KGB, because it was working for the same cause.

  Vladimir Semichastny

  Believe, Kgb, Achievement

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• I've never been to the Soviet Union and the main reason for that is I was warned several times by people from the KGB who had defected to the West that it would be very unsafe for me to go there

  Brian Crozier

  Kgb, People, West

  "Author delivers 'accessible' Soviet history" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. January 5, 2000.

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• One of the issues that we professional newspaper columnists are required by union regulations to voice grave concern about is the federal budget deficit, which we refer to as the "mounting" deficit, because every extra word helps when you have to produce a certain number of gravely concerned newsprint inches.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Voice, Numbers

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

  John Dickinson

  Perfect, Justice, Causes

  Declaration of reasons for taking up arms against England, presented to Congress, 8 July 1775, in C. J. Stillè 'The Life and Times of John Dickinson' (1891) ch. 5

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• Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we need union with God. To get union with God, we need the new birth. And to get the new birth, we need faith.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Law, Needs

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.114, Ignatius Press

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• All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

  Nicolas Malebranche

  United, Creatures, Reciprocal

  Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.194, Routledge

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• The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

  Aldrich Ames

  Play, Victory, Roles

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• The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

  John Bruton

  Successful, Europe, World

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• If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Europe, Capability, Nato

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• Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

  Jan Peter Balkenende

  Country, Order, Europe

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• We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Heart, Europe, Want

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• The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Opportunity, Order, Europe

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• The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

  Javier Solana

  Iraq, Keys, Views

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• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Years, Europe, Population

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