The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.

Half is better than nothing for our average member who lives paycheck to paycheck on $35,000 a year.

We're here today to demand accountability and an end to government shutdowns. We're here to tell legislators that our public services are not for sale.

Never again should the citizens of this state and the employees of this state have to pay that kind of price for political gridlock.

You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always saying, There’s this and there’s that—if I had this or that to do, I might make something of it. No matter what a man is—I wouldn’t give twopence for him’— here Caleb’s mouth looked bitter, and he snapped his fingers— ‘whether he was the prime minister or the rick-thatcher, if he didn’t do well what he undertook to do.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.