Quotes About Change

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed. We talked about these things at the dinner table, at their schools, with their friends.

I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.

What did in the Soviet Union was the Soviet Union.

We have been getting out of the situation where we found ourselves in the early '90s, when the Soviet Union disappeared and the Russian Federation became what it is - you know, with no borders, with no budget, no money, and with huge problems starting with lack of food and so on and so forth.

I can't foretell the future, but I don't believe that the act of leaving the European Union would make our economic position worse; I think it would make it better.

The arc of the American story is long, it is bumpy and uncertain, but it always bends toward a more perfect union.

I have specifically argued that we need to change our relationship with the European Union by fundamentally reforming not just our relationship but the European Union itself.

Brexit has really broken a taboo. The Brits have shown us that you can leave the European Union, and you can come out better.

To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.

There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity.

I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very lucrative.

By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

The image of the unions is still not in tune with where we actually are, which is fifty-fifty men and women, with an increasing number of women at the top. I think it is changing, but I'm not complacent about this.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

I have seen the face of this country change in 25 years or 30 years. I have seen a equalization begin to develop - in inheritance laws, tax laws, laws for favoring trade unions, protecting them, and so forth. All these are social changes.