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Quotes About Working

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!
~ Richard Trumka
For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
~ John Sweeney
I am one of those authors who consider it their highest honour and their highest liberty to have a completely untrammelled chance of using their pens to serve the working people.
~ Mikhail Sholokhov
Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
~ Cornel West
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
~ Philip Levine
I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.
~ Scott McCallum
I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people, the good working people.
~ Leon Czolgosz
We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
~ Cornel West
Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
~ Frances O'Grady
The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
~ Kevin Rudd
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.
~ Johann Lamont
No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
~ Gary Weiss
Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.
~ Tom Perez
Working people of this country want economic security. The worst possible thing you can do for those families is bust the public finances, have some welfare system this country can't afford.
~ George Osborne
According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
~ Viktor Orban
Global supply chains are founded on a Darwinian model that rewards employers who treat working people as less than human.
~ Sharan Burrow
There are several different ways we can get at unclogging the arteries of lending in America and helping working people achieve financial independence. Part of that is going to be through executive action. Part of that is going to be through reconciliation.
~ Jeb Hensarling
Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?
~ Andrew Gillum
We are determined to work in partnership with business not only towards our goal of full employment, but for more secure jobs for working people so they can get on and meet their aspirations.
~ Chuka Umunna
We came to see the benefits for working people of common employment rights, guaranteed throughout the EU to prevent a race to the bottom. We worked together in practical ways to make cleaner beaches, protect the environment and ensure consumer rights.
~ Hilary Benn
While these attitudes are more visible when directed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
~ Robert Teeter
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.
~ Ernst Toller
I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.
~ Louise Mensch
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
~ Nicola Sturgeon