My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices.
Hilda Solis
ParentsLaborImportantFairEmpower
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
Luis Gutierrez
HopeImmigrationCreateLaborNation
It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.
Abraham Lincoln
WorldLaborOthersWithoutHappened
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem
WorkHomeWomenManPlayLabor
Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
Lucy Larcom
WorkEnthusiasmLaborPrivilegeAim
I am not a labor hater.
Eddie Rickenbacker
I AmLaborAmHater
The poor despise labor when performed by slaves.
George Mason
LaborPoorSlavesDespisePerformed
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Joshua Reynolds
ManThinkingGoLaborWillAvoid
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
George Jean Nathan
LifeFoolManRewardLaborWasted
American workers have faced serious difficulties in the labor market since the first oil shock in 1973. Since that time, the pace of productivity advance has slowed for reasons which are still not understood, lowering the rate at which living standards have advanced.
Janet Yellen
TimeAmericanSeriousLaborLiving
The fact that I could secure an opera engagement made me realize I had within me the making of an artist, if I would really labor for such an end. When I became thoroughly convinced of this, I was transformed from an amateur into a professional in a single day.
Enrico Caruso
DayMeEndArtistLaborRealize
If you are trying to favor the unions by having more rigid labor market and keeping wages very high, you could be blocking people from getting new jobs.
Jose Angel Gurria
PeopleTryingYouNewLaborUnions
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
David Mamet
CollegeLawyerLaborKnowBubble
Inflation was driven by higher labor costs, not higher goods costs. Frankly, I'd love to see a little bit of that. Because I'd love to pay people more. I'd love to see rising wages for everybody.
Douglas R. Oberhelman
LovePeopleLaborMorePaySee
I think we labor economists like to think of ourselves as being closer to the people.
David Autor
PeopleThinkLaborEconomistsBeing
We will get our people off of welfare and back to work - rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor.
Donald Trump
WorkPeopleAmericanHandsLabor
The Bethlehem profit-sharing system is based on my belief that every man should get exactly what he makes himself worth. This is the only plan I know of which is equally fair to the employers and every class of employee. Someday, I hope, all labor troubles will be solved by such a system.
Charles M. Schwab
HopeManPlanWorthLaborKnow
What my Republican colleagues often don't understand is that labor is a human-rights issue. I have to remind them Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement brought down the Communist bloc.
Chris Smith
ColleaguesDownLaborUnderstand
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
Bill Shorten
LifeJobFindTake For GrantedLabor
The studio is just a labor. Getting on stage is the reward.
Cliff Burton
RewardLaborStageJustStudio
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
Alexis Herman
FutureChildForwardReadyLabor
Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City.
Brendan I. Koerner
DayNew YorkCityHolidayNewLabor
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments.
GrowthServiceGovernmentLabor
I will not ascribe to the 'Blame America' club for vicious abuses of human rights, systemic exploitation of Cuban labor, unrelenting repression, and stifling censorship.
Bob Menendez
BlameAmericaLaborCensorshipWill
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