“Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.” PresidentLeaderUnionsCastsBarackShoreJerseyJimmyHypeInseparableGagaJersey ShoreHairsprayJimmy Hoffa Author:Michelle Malkin
“I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.” MenPartyLeaderUnions Author:Nicolas Sarkozy
“Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.” YearsStillsProblemPoliticalPresidentLeaderExampleChangedAmountNeededProgramLaborUnionsSolveMassiveOne TimeCashGovernorsConsensusFundingStimulusMayorsCongressmanBusiness LeadersParalysisLabor UnionInfusion Author:Steve Kroft
“If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union.” IfsMenBelieveHelpingPoliticalOrderFightingPoliticsI BelieveInterestCommonLeaderPolicyTradeUnionsBoundsI Believe InEmployeeFactoriesRailroadsWorkmenCommon Interests Book:Bully! Source: Bully!
“You should have disagreements with your leaders and your colleagues, but if it becomes immediately a question of questioning people's motives, and if immediately you decide that somebody who sees a whole new situation differently than you must be a bad person and somehow twisted inside, we are not going to get very far in forming a more perfect union.” PeopleIfsShouldPersonsWholePerfectSituationLeaderShould HaveUnionsMotiveQuestioningColleaguesTwistedDisagreementPartisanshipNew Situations Author:William J. Clinton
“My meetings with [Ahmed Chalabi] were very brief. I mean, I think I met with him at the State of the Union and just kind of working through the rope line, and he might have come with a group of leaders. But I haven't had any extensive conversations with him.” ThinkingKindMeanStatesMightLinesLeaderGroupsHavensMetsConversationUnionsMeetingsRope Author:George W. Bush
“A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.” KnowsWholeGovernmentSocialLeaderKnow HowEconomicFunctionUnionsIncludingUniversityEconomic SystemsSystems Of Government Author:Jean Chretien
“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“What I've done as a union leader and what literally thousands of other union representatives do, is make sure that we have co-operation in the workplace. What I get is that where employees are well treated, employers do well.” WellsDoneLeaderUnionsTreatedOperationsEmployeeRepresentativesWorkplaceEmployers Author:Bill Shorten
“It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.” PeopleMemoriesLeaderMoonDestructionImpactUnionsConvincedReachingAgendasSovietSoviet UnionAssuredGorbachevShort MemoryStalemateMutually Assured Destruction Author:Buzz Aldrin
“We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no government, church, corporation, trade, or professional association or trade union. The secret of its freedom is that it is composed of a multitude of organisations in the constitution of the best of which is reproduced that diffusion of power which is characteristic of the whole.” WholeGovernmentChurchPartySecretLeaderClassConstitutionTradeMajorityUnionsCorporationsCharacteristicsOur SocietyAssociationMultitudesUnlimitedOrganisationFactionsTrade UnionsDiffusion Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“With conglomerates selling companies to liquidators, who close down plants and move to non-union areas, it's about time progressive union leaders step in to stop such job-losing tactics... ESOP should become a part of future bargaining packages!” ShouldWisdomJobsMovingPoliticsCompanyLeaderStepsEconomyLosingAreasUnionsPlantSellingLiberalismProgressiveTacticsPackagesBargainingEsops Author:Tom Colicchio
“America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.” GivingTwoKidsJobsAmericaDifferencesLeaderEconomyMomLowsStrongerUnionsStriveCongressImmigrantsCeoBetter Life Author:Barack Obama
“It is a modern tragedy that one of the Soviet Union's most intelligent and realistic leaders has served and died during the administration of the most ill-informed and dangerous man ever to occupy the White House.” MenWarHouseWhiteLeaderModernDangerousColdTragedyDiedIntelligentUnionsIllAdministrationWhite HouseRealisticSovietCold WarSoviet UnionDangerous ManModern Tragedy Author:George McGovern
“I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.” ThinkingGivingHas BeensPoliticalDesireEffortLeaderPathEffectsMembersUnionsDemocraticFormerRadicalLabelsOperationsLabourUrgesAssociatesBeneficialJointsFormationEndeavourTreadingJoint Efforts Author:Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede
“The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.” MenEarthLyingLeaderGreatnessUnionsPhenomenonOne ManOrganizer Author:Adolf Hitler
“These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.” ThinkingMenWarEndsFactsExistenceLeaderEnemyHe ManEssentialsArmySlaveryUnionsCarefulCivil WarRebellionBe CarefulTrustedHostileTraitor Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Native American and humanist perspectives, as well as individuals from advocacy groups ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the American Center for Law and Justice.” PeopleWellsChristianLawIndividualReligiousJusticeLibertyLeaderGroupsPerspectiveTablesUnionsConvictionNativeHumanistBroadsHinduismNative AmericanSpectrumRepresentingCivil LibertiesAdvocacyRecommendationsLaw And Justice Author:Charles Haynes
“For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.” ProblemNationsNaturalPerfectLeaderRolesRightsAchieveCenturyKeysBecomingOne DayOvercomingSlaveryUnionsInspiredCivil RightsHopefullyConceptionProtectedNatural DeathAbolishing Slavery Author:Marco Rubio
“John Kerry and the other Democratic leaders are on the wrong side of history, as they were during the Reagan presidency. If they had won the day, and Reagan had failed, the Soviet Union would still exist, as would all the harm and suffering it unleashed, and American security would be far weaker as a result. And if they win this election thanks to a promise to undo the Reagan-Bush Doctrine, those cheering loudest will be the most evil-loving among us.” IfsStillsWould BeSufferingEvilWinningSidesResultsLeaderSecurityPromiseElectionUnionsDemocraticHarmDoctrineThanksCheerSovietPresidencySoviet UnionJohn KerryUnleashedDemocratic Leaders Author:Mark Levin
“Mr. Gorbachev initiated Glasnost, Perestroika, so he was already, you know, way disenchanted with the rigid Communist ideology, and he was looking to become an international leader. He was more accepted actually outside of the Communist Soviet Union than inside.” KnowsWayLeaderUnionsInternationalAcceptedIdeologyCommunistSovietSoviet UnionGorbachevDisenchantedGlasnost Author:Deepak Chopra
“The New Deal never rethought the draconian racist immigration restriction policies of the 20s, of course, but its electoral base rested significantly on "ethnic" voters, whose activism was both hemmed in and rewarded by the Democrats. Southern and Eastern Europeans were included as secondary leaders of the new industrial unions, and as entitled citizens qualified for social security, unemployment compensation, and fair labor standards protections, even as workers of color were largely left out of key areas of the welfare state.” StatesCoursesLeftSocialDealsLeaderSecurityPolicyColorKeysCitizensStandardsAreasFairsLaborUnionsDemocratWorkersProtectionActivismImmigrationWelfareRacistVotersSouthernEntitledUnemploymentEasternSocial SecurityQualifiedCompensationRestrictionLeft OutWelfare StateNew DealDraconian Author:David Roediger