Trumka Quotes

#1. You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

Richard Trumka

#2. Where the past is venerated the clean and those who clean things up should be kept out. Piety is never happy without a little dust, dirt, and rubbish.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.

Richard Trumka

#4. When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.
While we are on fire let us seethe and boil.

Rabindranath Tagore

#5. The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

Richard Trumka

#6. If you're mad enough to have killed a dozen people you're mad enough to be a fraction impatient. Surely?

Sebastian Faulks

#7. I do believe that freedom isn't free - but today the corporate and political right wing is trying to cheapen this truly American value. They've been cynically using the word 'freedom' to rally the American public against its own best interests.

Richard Trumka

#8. We can support President Barack Obama, because he supports us. We can support Barack Obama, because he shares our values and our vision.

Richard Trumka

#9. Tom is trying to tag a banshee? By himself? Go for it, coffin bait.

Kim Harrison

#10. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war
that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.

Sun Tzu

#11. A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,

Richard Trumka

#12. Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

Richard Trumka

#13. Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

Carlos Slim

#14. Can I see the cockpit?
"There's nothing more I'd rather do than show you my cockpit. I thought you'd never ask.

Penelope Ward

#15. Time after time we're told corporations should have freedom from pesky job safety regulations, environmental protections and labor standards - giving working people the freedom to be crushed in collapsing mines, choke on filthy air and get paid too little to live on.

Richard Trumka

#16. We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

Richard Trumka

#17. You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

Richard Trumka

#18. When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, Sarah Palin tweeted, 'Obama lies; freedom dies.' She's referring, I guess, to the freedom to go without health care when you're sick.

Richard Trumka

#19. There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America. To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

Richard Trumka

#20. The ultimate goal of those who blame workers for Wall Street's economic crisis is to unravel the fabric of our common life in pursuit of greed and power.

Richard Trumka

#21. We can support Barack Obama because he's committed to putting America back to work with good jobs - and he proved it by saving the auto industry.

Richard Trumka

#22. In the past we couldn't talk to non-union workers. Now we can at least talk to non-union workers so we'll be mobilizing them and educating them not for just six or eight months before an election, but we'll be doing it year-round.

Richard Trumka

#23. And, you know, money is - the money edge is really dangerous to democracy. Because what you have right now - people have said to me that, look, you'll always be outspent, so how can you ever win?

Richard Trumka