Quotes About Labor

I would say I'd rather dig a ditch, you know, do hard, manual labor than write lyrics.

The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.

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.

True Americanism recognizes the enormous gravity of the social and labor problems which confront us.

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

The investment we're all looking for is actually saving labor... Look at what the internet is doing to retail.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

I'm really proud of an independent movie called 'Angel's Perch' that you can get now on demand. It's a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it's a beautiful film.

A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

To be sure, faster growth in nominal labor compensation does not necessarily portend higher inflation.

In the Great Depression, employment and investment were low because labor market institutions and industrial polices changed.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

We may not have the cheapest labor costs, but where we can compete is innovation. Historically, that's been Connecticut's strength, and it can be again.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.

I knew that manual labor wasn't the career for me.

America's economy cannot be disentangled from the free labor that built it, just as America's culture cannot be unbound from the black artists who cultivated it.

Globalism is a scheme for impoverishing First World labor and taking power and influence from the hands of the many and putting them in the hands of the few.

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.

Businesses are among the first to see changes in the labor market, but few countries have the necessary close relationship between business and educators to ensure this information reaches the education system.