#worker

I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way. ↗

— Vince Cable

#cats #completely #confront #cut #environmental

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

#benefits #economic #i #line #out

We could not guard every water pipeline from being blown up and every tree from being uprooted. We could not prevent every murder of a worker in an orchard or a family in their beds. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#being #blown #could #every #family

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#actor #ant #done #guess #high

Any union that can't accept workers choosing their own representatives through universal franchise is finished. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#any #choosing #finished #franchise #own

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people. ↗

— Iris Dement

#feel #help #help people #i #i feel

I support secure borders both north and south and I support a guest worker program for those here today illegally. Labor and skilled workers are critical to our Texas economy. ↗

— David Dewhurst

#both #critical #economy #guest #guest worker program

I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#cause #connection #deep #dock #feel

My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there for him, family was everything. We could disagree inside the house, but outside the house it was us against the world. So when I became a drag actor, he looked sideways but said okay. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#against #became #because #brought #could

Over the past two years, the House has passed more than 50 measures focused on stimulating the economy and expanding opportunities for American workers. The tax relief provisions in this package have been an important part of our pro-growth agenda. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#american #american workers #been #economy #expanding