Quotes and Sayings About Unions
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
-- Abdullah Ahmad BadawiSource : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
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The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
-- Adrian Hadley -
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I was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.
-- Al Lewis -
It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
-- Albert Camus -
The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.
-- Albert Mackey -
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When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children.
-- Albert ShankerSource : "Stupid In America" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 16, 2011.
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I said in court a long time ago that I didn't see that the Soviet Union was significantly helped by the information I gave them, nor that the United States was significantly harmed.
-- Aldrich Ames -
The difficulties of conducting espionage against the Soviet Union in the Soviet Union were such that historically the Agency had backed away from the task.
-- Aldrich Ames -
The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?
-- Aldrich Ames -
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I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.
-- Aldrich Ames -
I handed over names and compromised so many CIA agents in the Soviet Union.
-- Aldrich Ames -
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
-- Aleister Crowley -
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
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But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
The attributes of sovereignty are now enjoyed by every state in the Union.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Im a huge Rugby Union fan, which is a bit like American football - but tougher.
-- Alexander Hanson -
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We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.
-- Allen West -
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
-- Amartya Sen -
Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
-- Amity Shlaes -
All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.
-- Anastas MikoyanSource : "The Soviet Government and the Jews 1948-1967: A Documented Study" by Benjamin Pinkus, (p. 66), 1984.
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It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.
-- Anderson Cooper -
I respect the state workers and I respect their unions, but we simply can't afford to pay benefits and pensions that are out of line with economic reality.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.
-- Andrew Jackson -
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Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.
-- Andy SternSource : "Andy Stern Laments Washington Politics But Scoffs At Idea Of Running For Office" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.
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It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stronger union out or from negotiating contracts with lower pay and standards that members of another union have spent a lifetime establishing.
-- Andy SternSource : "Labor leader calls for reform / Reorganization in order, says chief of fast-growing union" by George Raine, www.sfgate.com. June 22, 2004.