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.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

There is time for everything.

I am responsible only to God and history.

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years.

Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

I don't care how good you are, you have to have that feeling in your gut that you want to win every week when you go out there.