American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep...but you can only choose two.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Employers need to recognize that the world has changed and there are people who would like to help them provide solution in ways that are new, modern and that add value to companies.

The AFL-CIO is a structure that divides workers' strength by allowing each union to organize in any industry, then bargain on its own, even when workers share a common employer.

Once, a union job at GM or AT&T was a bridge to success. Now, a nonunion Wal-Mart job is a bridge to nowhere.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members interests.

Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

When I left SEIU, we had started this quality public service agenda to say to our members what I think the United Auto Workers learned: that quality is our only job security in the long run.

I'd rather be a semi intelligent thinker and doer...than a highly intelligent thinker.. or an unintelligent doe

Listen, murderer, I don’t want to hear anything you have to say!” Jackson growled loudly.

I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

If you want to grow, you must learn to let go.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

I have long believed that what most affects a child is not the divorce, per se, but how it is handled

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.

Magic teaches us how to lie without guilt.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.