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

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.

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.

Go slow, my life, go slow. Let me enjoy the beauty of silence, serenity, and solitude.

History is the business of identifying momentous events from the comfort of a high-back chair.

Pray, and let God worry.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

Jiu-Jitsu has been one of the most valuable tools I've ever had in my life.

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.

There is no reality, only perception.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse