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“My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.”

Wells Unions Opponents Voting Cream Bakers Puff Cream Puffs

“It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”

Giving States President Information Judging Constitution Unions Congress Consideration

Book:State of the Union Addresses

Source: State of the Union Addresses

“I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.”

Government Unions Privilege Traditional Grants Homosexual Family Life Marriage And Family Traditional Marriage

Author:Todd Akin

“Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.”

Important Reason Belief Party Ideals Unions Communist Soviet Collapse Soviet Union Communist Party

Author:Xi Jinping

“By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.”

Way States Together Members Areas Unions European Union Euro Contributors Imf

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“The euro area must not be treated as an "opt out" from the European Union.”

Areas Unions Treated European Union Euro

Author:Jose Manuel Barroso

“Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players.”

Two Games Player Team Economics Baseball Unions Addresses Exception Owners Plus Hockey Nhl

Author:Gary Bettman

“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.”

States Would Be Guy President Community United Careers United States Labor Asking Unions Congress Allies Adversaries Advocating Lobbyists Labor Union Lobbying

Author:Haley Barbour

“Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.”

Ideas Goodness Unions Supreme Plato

Book:History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

Source: History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation

“Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.”

Feels Years Hands Parent Numbers Comfortable Trade Unions Debate Agendas Nuts Conferences Format Annuals Attending Trade Unions

Author:Saffron Burrows

“At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”

Thinking Men Needs Structure Unions Core Our Family Basics Redefining

Author:Sam Brownback

“I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment.”

Wells Law Names Unions Punishment Agents Soviet Soviet Union Machinery Exposing Capital Punishment Prosecution

Author:Aldrich Ames

“The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.”

Country Running Interest Economy Benefits Unions Empires Soviet Soviet Union Developed Country

Author:Barbara Amiel

“When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.”

Literature Democracy Republican Organization Unions Traditional Fabric Woven Federalist American Democracy

Book:The Promise of American Life

Source: The Promise of American Life

“We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.”

Men Stills Values Practice Protect Institutions Unions Tolerance

Author:Ken Calvert

“When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.”

School Leader India Trade Unions Lawyer Harvard Trade Unions Business School

Author:P. Chidambaram

“The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.”

Reality Mother Father Unions Biology Grounded

Author:Salvatore J. Cordileone

“For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundreds of new rules will require an estimated 2,260,631 labor hours just for compliance. Those are hours that your local bank or credit union will spend dealing with some Washington bureaucrat instead of focusing on the needs of customers like you.”

Needs Community Hours Like You Labor Unions Credit Customers Locals Bureaucrats Compliance Wisconsin Small Communities Wisconsin Weather Credit Unions

Author:Sean Duffy

“The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.”

Looks May States House President White Effort Unions Radical Agendas White House Compassionate Wraps Ribbons Hardworking Donors Rosy Balconies

Author:Howard Dean

“The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.”

Thinking Stills Government Jobs Law Interest Roles Members Unions Collectives Agreement Parliament Representing

Author:Jacques Delors

“Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.”

Mean Political Europe Structure Unions Banking Parliament Legislature Monetary Prerogative

Author:Barry Eichengreen

“For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created the world's most productive companies, and our unions made sure that productivity led to broad middle class prosperity.”

“I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.”

Thinking Has Beens Ends States Speak Party Records Unions Track Mandates Prosecutor Track Record African Union

Author:Fatou Bensouda

“One substitute for the disappearing Evil Empire (The Soviet Union) has been the threat of drug traffickers from Latin America. In early September 1989, a major government-media blitz was launched by the President. That month the AP wires carried more stories about drugs than about Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa combined. If you looked at television, every news program had a big section on how drugs were destroying our society, becoming the greatest threat to our existence, etc.”

“I got Mary pregnant and man that's all she wrote. And for my 19th birthday, I got a union card and a factory coat.”

Men Reality Unions Cards Factories Mary Pregnant Coats

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.”

Saws Unions Ghost Gates Avenues

Author:Marc Cohn

“Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.”

Light Politics Sun Sky Gun Unions Fists Light Up Great American Napalm

Author:Ray Davies

“Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.”

People Unions Fascists

Author:Luis Fortuno

“When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.”

Play Wanted Christian Mother Hate Baseball Unions Meetings Engaged Annuals Temperance Skiing

Author:Maureen Forrester

“We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.”

Country Political Fighting Force Politician Members Approach Opposites Unions Workers Planning Chosen More Money Undermining Afl Cio

Author:James P. Hoffa

“Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.”

Ideas Energy Community Divine Unions Mysterious Symbols Intimate Phenomenon Participation Pledge

Author:Johann Georg Hamann

“European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.”

Hard Citizens Discipline Fairs Unions European Union Euro

Author:Tarja Halonen

“I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.”

Firsts Actors Unions Gigs

Author:Michael Ironside

“It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.”

Giving Country Unions Divided Acceptable European Union Divided Country

Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble.”

Mean Real Political Trouble Fairs Vote Unions Judicial

Author:Anthony Kennedy

“Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats.”

Compassion Taken Fronts Tvs Eating Cat Unions Intelligence Careful Intellect Be Careful

Author:Vera Nazarian

“I think actually what I'm going to do when I'm done and take my next vacation, is I'm going to go over and start unions in Japan. I'm going to unionize Japan. Because the way they work those crews is so criminal. There's no overtime, so they can just keep going.”

Thinking Way Done Next Unions Criminals Japan Keep Going Vacation Crew

Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar

“In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.”

May Self Done Facts Law Unions Congress Campaigns Finance Corporate Incumbents Campaign Finance

Author:Elena Kagan

“So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.”

Men States Law Percent Unions Amendments Providing Constitutional Amendments

Author:Jack Kingston

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