Labor Quotes - page 10

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term. (Bill Shorten)
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. View quote
Bill Shorten
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. View quote
Charles Kuralt
I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it's become it's a labor of love. They love what they do. View quote
Charles Osgood
The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race. View quote
Chris Ware
I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you? View quote
Claire McCaskill
Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor. View quote
Claude Vorilhon
The NRA was one of the items that we pointed to when we added money to the labor, health and Education appropriations bill by reducing the size of the tax cut. View quote
Dave Obey
America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world. View quote
Ernest Istook
I doing casual labor by the day. They wouldn't pay you until the next morning. There was a bar that would cash your check if you bought a beer first. A lot of guys never left until they'd drunk up all their money. View quote
Fred Ward
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time. (Grace Abbott)
That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati. View quote
Gamaliel Bailey
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. View quote
Hugh Sidey
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions. View quote
Haley Barbour
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day. View quote
J. D. Hayworth
Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans. View quote
James P. Hoffa
Smart businesses do not look at labor costs alone anymore. They do look at market access, transportation, telecommunications infrastructure and the education and skill level of the workforce, the development of capital and the regulatory market. View quote
Janet Napolitano
In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. View quote
Julian Castro
A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. View quote
Liberty Hyde Bailey
The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money. View quote
Linda Chavez
I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently. (Lucas Neff)
Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized. View quote
Luis Fortuno
When money is controlled by a few it gives that few an undue power and control over labor and the resources of the country. Labor will have its best return when the laborer can control its disposal. View quote
Leland Stanford
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy, it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor, and that therefore, in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor. View quote
Leland Stanford
Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. View quote
Leland Stanford