Top 29 John Sweeney Quotes

#1. There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

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#2. They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.

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#3. Because of GLHR's crusades ... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

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#4. I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

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#5. I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

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#6. People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.

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#7. Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.

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#8. In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

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#9. The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.

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#10. But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.

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#11. I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.

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#12. I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.

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#13. We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

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#14. I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.

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#15. There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

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#16. Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

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#17. Satellite technology is a wonderful thing. From space, we can stare down and look at perimeter fences, huts, mine entrances and even sites of mass graves.

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#18. It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

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#19. In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

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#20. Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

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#21. In North Korea, journalism, the job of telling the stories power and money do not want told, of giving a voice to the voiceless, does not exist.

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#22. The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.

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#23. The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.

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#24. Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.

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#25. I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.

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#26. When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.

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#27. For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

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#28. America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

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#29. We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.

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