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?

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

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.

You have abundance all around you.

Dreams are fulfilled at the right.Be patient and wait for the fulfillment of your dreams.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

I'd never needed to know that my sister was a screamer. Never. That Mal was a screamer too just kind of confused me.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

The only love she inspires is the canine kind.

Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.