George Meany Quotes

#1. It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.

George Meany

#2. Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.

George Meany

#3. The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

George Meany

#4. Faerie may not always have been the kindest place to live, but it was still my home. I owed it to Gillian, To May, to Dare, and Tybalt and January, and all the others not to say that my life had been a mistake. Not when it had been so intertwined with theirs.

Seanan McGuire

#5. We heard from the abortionists and we heard from the people who looked like Jacks, acted like Jills and had the odors of Johns.

George Meany

#6. I'm trying to take all the media attention with a grain of salt. It is nice, but you are never as great as people say you are. And you're never as bad as others say you are.

Kelly Olynyk

#7. I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.

Eliza Doolittle

#8. You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

Greville Janner, Baron Janner Of Braunstone

#9. You stay with her. I'll follow it in.

Dan Simmons

#10. Every piece of progressive social legislation passed by Congress in the 20th century bears a union label.

George Meany

#11. Economics was the only profession where a person could be considered an expert without having once been right.

George Meany

#12. Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

Henry Vaughan

#13. The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to better the standards of life for all who work for wages and to seek decency and justice and dignity for all Americans.

George Meany

#14. The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

George Meany

#15. pit - those with nothing left to lose will dare anything. And why not? They have everything to gain.

Bodie Parkhurst

#16. Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

George Meany

#17. The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.

Joseph Sobran

#18. My family, my friends, and skiing ... thats it for me, thats my life. The joy I get from skiing, thats worth dying for.

C. R. Johnson