The car provided Americans with an enviable standard of living. You could not get a steady job with high wages and health and retirement benefits working on the General Livestock Corporation assembly line putting udders on cows.

P. J. O'Rourke

American Assembly Assembly Line Benefits Car Corporation Could Cows Enviable General Get Health High Job Line Livestock Living Provided Putting Retirement Standard Steady Steady Job Wages Working You

Related Quotes

Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.

— Mike Rogers

AssemblyAssembly LineFirst

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

AssemblyAssembly LineCould

My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his job was to build and then inspect the little spark plugs as they came off the line.

— Michael Moore

AssemblyAssembly LineBuild

The idea of having a steady job is appealing.

— Robin Williams

AppealingHavingIdea

But when you find someone working on the assembly line at General Motors is making more than a Detroit policeman, you see that support start to decline.

— Peter Morici

AssemblyDetroitGeneral