James P. Hoffa quote: "Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers."

As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder...
JAMES P. HOFFA

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
JAMES P. HOFFA

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow ins...
JAMES P. HOFFA

This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. A...
JAMES P. HOFFA

And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical....
JAMES P. HOFFA

All workers want is a fair shake.
JAMES P. HOFFA

We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's ...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturin...
JAMES P. HOFFA

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shippe...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide f...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the r...
JAMES P. HOFFA

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ...
JAMES P. HOFFA

We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our nu...
JAMES P. HOFFA

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
JAMES P. HOFFA

It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
JAMES P. HOFFA

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
JAMES P. HOFFA

This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
JAMES P. HOFFA

Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
JAMES P. HOFFA

Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and th...
JAMES P. HOFFA

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're fr...
JAMES P. HOFFA

can articulate why we need annual review for this treaty.
JAMES HOFFA

We have a strategy to train workers to rebuild their communities, ... We must learn from this traged...
JAMES HOFFA

I assure you the Teamsters Union will be a strong force in electing the next president of the United...
JAMES HOFFA

fighting a battle against outsourcing.
JAMES HOFFA

Working people in this country need stronger unions, ... Employers continue taking things away from ...
JAMES HOFFA

Working people are having a very, very tough time today,
JAMES HOFFA

This is not about fighting or raiding the AFL-CIO, ... We're not at war with anyone, but we're tryin...
JAMES HOFFA

The 40-hour work week is under attack. The right to organize is under attack. We are fighting for re...
JAMES HOFFA

This joint effort will result in strong representation for all workers at the newly merged airline, ...
JAMES HOFFA

As the industry endures continued economic uncertainty, this agreement will ensure that nearly 10,00...
JAMES HOFFA

I think Alan Greenspan is wrong,
JAMES HOFFA

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember
JAMES R. HOFFA (JIMMY)

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
JAMES R. HOFFA (JIMMY)

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
JIMMY HOFFA

I don't need bodyguards.
JIMMY HOFFA

Always run from a knife and rush a gun.
JIMMY HOFFA

The idea of it terrifies them.
JANE HOFFA

We help about 1,200 kids a year. And our biggest goal is to get a grant for dental work.
DALE HOFFA

This year we've given out $4,000 worth of shampoo for head lice.
DALE HOFFA

I'm not as tall as I used to be. But no one gets past me.
DALE HOFFA

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'
REESE HOFFA

You have to be able to manufacture some runs when you have opportunities like we had. Stratford is a...
DAN HOFFA

This game boiled down to us beating ourselves. They scored a pair of unearned runs and we left way t...
DAN HOFFA

Markesan is a good team and we played hard and just came up short. I'm very proud of the guys and th...
DAN HOFFA

We just battled. I think the thing that these guys realize, that as they get older, they're not goin...
DAN HOFFA

I thought we really stepped up in the fourth quarter on defense, otherwise we struggled the other th...
DAN HOFFA

We went cold in the third and that's pretty much the bottom line. We had good looks, we just weren't...
DAN HOFFA

For history, we start with the American Indians and then who discovered America. It's really kind of...
JANE HOFFA

The application goes into the State, then they're on the waiting list to take the test. It's a slow ...
JANE HOFFA

Their first step is to get an application to become a citizen.
JANE HOFFA

Basically, we start by encouraging them to become citizens. We also often have to reassure them that...
JANE HOFFA

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our frien...
P. D. JAMES

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. JAMES

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially m...
P. D. JAMES

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. JAMES

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down ...
P. D. JAMES

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries u...
P. D. JAMES

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more viole...
P. D. JAMES

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care...
P. D. JAMES

God gives every bird his worm, but He does not throw it into the nest.
P. D. JAMES

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting...
P. D. JAMES

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. JAMES

I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the ...
P. D. JAMES

No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meetin...
P. D. JAMES

We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our fri...
P. D. JAMES

You don't need to be Catholic to be Catholic anymore. If you dissent, you don't get out. Martin Luth...
JAMES P. MCFADDEN

What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P. D. JAMES

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life...
P. D. JAMES

Cash as a physical entity will virtually cease to exist, with coins and checkbooks consigned to muse...
JAMES P. GORMAN

Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Cro...
JAMES P. HOGAN

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, co...
JAMES P. CARSE

Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore m...
JAMES P. HOGAN

Banks should decide on dividend increases and share buybacks after receiving the results of stress t...
JAMES P. GORMAN

I have a direct way of speaking. What I do is tend to lay out everything; I tend to tell people what...
JAMES P. GORMAN

Success is like a fart -- only your own smells nice.
JAMES P. HOGAN

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but...
JAMES P. HOGAN

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ough...
JAMES P. CANNON

The threshold question: Will banks continue to exist? The answer is yes, because society will still ...
JAMES P. GORMAN

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down ...
P. D. JAMES

Jealousy, he thought, was as physical as fear; the same dryness of the mouth, the thudding heart, th...
P. D. JAMES

It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron the...
P. D. JAMES

From our perspective, just narrowly from the financial sector and from our institution, there's ...
JAMES P. GORMAN

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the...
JAMES P. HOGAN

When everything is said and done, all we have left is the content of our character and the quality o...
JAMES P KREHBIEL

Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important.
JAMES P. GORMAN

She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as i...
P. D. JAMES

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
JAMES P. LEWIS

I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian,...
JAMES P. GORMAN

Banking's a sexy industry! Creative - it's dynamic, it's global, it's fast-moving, y...
JAMES P. GORMAN

You will not see, in my career, the kind of returns this industry had in 2005 and 2006 for a very si...
JAMES P. GORMAN

There are two Americas - and millions of the people already distinguish between them. One is the Ame...
JAMES P. CANNON

Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.
JAMES P. GORMAN

[Fats Waller's talent outstripped even his girth. He was the most celebrated of all stride pianists,...
JAMES P. JOHNSON

We are monopolists in the field of politics. We can't stand any competition. We can tolerate no riva...
JAMES P. CANNON

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impo...
JAMES P. CANNON

That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it...
JAMES P. GORMAN

In an encounter with divine reality, we do not hear a voice but acquire a voice, and the voice we ac...
JAMES P. CARSE

As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM

Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK

My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK

I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK

Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM

There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM

Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P

The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN

Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P

When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P

Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P.

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET

...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P.

I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA

Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P

If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P

So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH

Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH

Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH

WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE

To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their...
P. J. O'ROURKE

We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ...
TARAJI P. HENSON

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant...
H. P. LOVECRAFT

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.
H. P. LOVECRAFT

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on Ne...
P. J. O'ROURKE

The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
SALMON P. CHASE

What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
SALMON P. CHASE

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several pa...
SALMON P. CHASE

All men are born equally free.
SALMON P. CHASE

Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the inte...
SALMON P. CHASE

What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which...
SALMON P. CHASE

The Proclamation does not, indeed, mark out exactly the course I should myself prefer. But I am read...
SALMON P. CHASE

The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot...
SALMON P. CHASE

Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Total falsehoods can be easily exposed for what they are by citing exceptions to their claims. Hence...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly h...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Immigrants are people who leave one country, one society, and move to another society. But there has...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

And so in terms of territorial control, in terms of economic preeminence, the western share of the g...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of imm...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has i...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

I think clearly the United States, as well as other western nations, should stand by their commitmen...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis ...
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.
SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I feel like we all have our skeletons.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
TARAJI P. HENSON

With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you,...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or b...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I would love to do a biopic of a famous singer, like Diana Ross or Donna Summer, or an old jazz stor...
TARAJI P. HENSON

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to...
TARAJI P. HENSON

Date a woman with children only if you are ready to man up, because it's a position that comes w...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm nothing without God.
TARAJI P. HENSON

Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't ever want to feel complacent.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by you...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm always the cousin that can't make it to the family functions because I'm busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON

When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn mor...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no ...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
TARAJI P. HENSON

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.
TARAJI P. HENSON

It's up to you to be responsible for how you feel if you're not happy. Your happiness lies i...
TARAJI P. HENSON

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, m...
TARAJI P. HENSON

At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
TARAJI P. HENSON

Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

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Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

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