Quotes about Unions

Business Magnate, Investor, Humanitarian

Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Interest - Man - Party - Principle - Promotion - Unions

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?

Arms - Children - Inheritance - Nations - Organization - Unions

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

From the first moment of independence, the United States has been dedicated to innovation as a way of government and a way of life.

Dedication - Government - Independence - Innovation - Life - State - Unions

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.

Despair - Force - Labor - Misery - Movement - Progression - Unions

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Malcolm X

Human Rights Activist

When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody.

State - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

State - Unions

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Pope John Paul II

Clergyman, Saint, Priest

The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.

Cost - Real - Satisfaction - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.

Misleading - Obligations - President - Progression - Pursuit - State - Unions

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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.

Countries - Experimenting - State - Transitioning - Unions

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

The [next] priority for change the first element of a new politics for the United States is in our policy toward the world. Too much and for too long, we have acted as if our great military might and wealth could bring about an American solution to every world problem.

Military - Policy - Priority - Problem - Solution - State - Unions - Wealth - World

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Writer, Statesman, Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

We had 10 years after the Cold War to build a new world order and yet we squandered them. The United States cannot tolerate anyone acting independently. Every US president has to have a war.

Acting - Order - President - State - Tolerance - Unions - War - World

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Greatness - Man - Ownership - State - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon being made out of green cheese - it does not exist. Powerful states have quite typically considered themselves to be exceptionally magnificent, and the United States is no exception to that. The basis for it is not very substantial to put it politely.

Making - State - Unions

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. But business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment.

Art - Capitalism - Environment - Labor - Liberty - Literature - Sport - Totalitarianism - Unions

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people.

Belief - Challenge - President - State - Unions - Watching

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.

Belief - State - Traditions - Unions

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet, Critic, Philosopher, Theologian

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Blindness - Deafness - Happiness - Imagination - Unions

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

Even in a largely depoliticized society such as the United States, with no political parties or opposition press beyond the narrow spectrum of the business-dominated consensus, it is possible for populate action to have a significant impact on policy, though indirectly. That was an important lesson for the Indochina Wars.

Actions - Politics - Pressure - Significance - State - Unions

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John F. Kennedy

Former President of the United States

No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

Man - State - Unions

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