“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 have been supporting the European Union, but we are still a work in progress. We have to become more of a United States of Europe. We should talk about electing a president of the E.U., rather than having one selected from the heads of government.” ShouldHas BeensStillsStatesGovernmentPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProgressEuropeUnionsEuropean UnionSelectedWork In Progress Author:George Papandreou
“Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.” StatesPresidentUnionsAddressesPresident ObamaMinimumEconomistMinimum WageGeneral Public Author:Christina Romer
“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
“Our president delivered his State of the Union message to Congress. That is one of the things his contract calls for -- to tell congress the condition of the country. This message, as I say, is to Congress. The rest of the people know the condition of the country, for they live in it, but Congress has no idea what is going on in America, so the president has to tell 'em.” PeopleKnowsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaPoliticsPresidentConditionsMessagesUnionsCongressNo IdeaEmsContracts Author:Will Rogers
“The teachers unions are the clearest example of a group that has lost its way. Whenever anyone dares to offer a new idea, the unions protest the loudest. Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.'” WayChildrenSaidIdeasSchoolLostPresidentInterestAttitudeTeacherGroupsExampleOffersUnionsDareDuesProtestNew IdeasRepresentingFederationTeachers Unions Author:Mitt Romney
“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.” WorldYearsMadePresidentMillionsThousandTenHundredLaborUnionsRaisedEightMade ItMembershipLabor Union Author:Jimmy Hoffa
“I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.” MenFightingBeliefPresidentSupportUnionsOne ManPassagesAmendmentsOne WomanConstitutional AmendmentsPersonal Beliefs Author:Mike Huckabee
“The Cold War philosophy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), which prevented the former Soviet Union and the United States from using the nuclear weapons they had targeted at each other, would not apply to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran. For him (Ahmadinejad), Mutual Assured Destruction is not a deterrent, it is an inducement.” WarStatesPhilosophyPresidentUnitedUnited StatesColdWeaponsDestructionMadUnionsNuclearFormerIranMutualSovietNuclear WeaponsCold WarSoviet UnionAssuredDeterrent Author:Bernard Lewis
“At the State of the Union address last night, President Obama made history by using the words transgender, lesbian, and bisexual in that speech. It was the part of the speech where he was just reading Craigslist personals.” MadeStatesLastsNightReadingPresidentSpeechUnionsAddressesPresident ObamaLast NightTransgenderBisexualCraigslist Author:Conan O'Brien
“I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.” PeopleIfsWantGivingBelieveHeartMayMadeCountryFeelingsRunningTodayYoungNextBeliefPresidentPerfectAttitudeGenerationsPossibilityMy HeartGive MeElectionMajorityUnionsOpennessCynicalNext GenerationDoubtful Author:Barack Obama
“I want my country to be trusted. I don't want anybody running for president telling the unions what they want to hear at the expense of the credibility of the United States.” WantCountryStatesRunningPresidentUnitedUnited StatesUnionsExpensesTrustedCredibility Author:Brian Williams
“[If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards.” IfsPresidentDutyElectionUnionsCan NotSecuredInauguration Book:Conversations With Lincoln Source: Conversations With Lincoln
“Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.” Has BeensStatesHandsPresidentUnionsSurpriseFolksAddressesPresident BushCapturedDeanAnnouncements Author:David Letterman
“President Obama's been reaching out to Iran, reaching out to Cuba, reaching out to Latin America. The only place he can't seem to be able to reach out to: Texas. ... Despite Governor Rick Perry talking about how Texas could secede from the Union if it wanted to, 75 per cent of the people who live there want to stay in the United States. Of course they want to stay. I mean, after spending all that time and effort sneaking across the border to get here, why would they want to leave?” PeopleIfsWantMeanStatesSeemsAbleWantedAmericaCoursesPresidentUnitedEffortTalkingUnited StatesUnionsSpendingDespiteBordersReachingIranLatinTexasPresident ObamaReach OutCentsGovernorsCubaLatin America Author:Jay Leno
“Impeach the President and the Vice President, they are traitors to America, and so are all of their supporters. Impeach! Anyone in congress who refuses to save our union from these traitors by doing nothing needs to be recalled.” NeedsAmericaPresidentUnionsCongressVicesRefuseSupporterDoing NothingTraitorVice President Author:Roseanne Barr
“One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.” CountryStatesPresidentPoorUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWeaponsConcernUnionsBurdenNuclearDevelopingSovietNuclear WeaponsConventionalOther CountriesSoviet UnionArsenalProliferationPoor Countries Author:Jimmy Carter
“Mr. President, I wish to speak today, not as a Massachusetts man, nor as a Northern man, but as an American. I speak for the preservation of the Union. Hear me for my cause.” MenTodaySpeakWishCausesPresidentUnionsPreservationMassachusetts Book:Defender of the Union: the oratory of Daniel Webster Source: Defender of the Union: the oratory of Daniel Webster
“Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.” MadeStatesTogetherSufferingChoicesStrongPresidentLeadershipDemocracyTiredUnionsExcuseAnalysisPullingNot StrongPulling Together Author:Jose Serrano