Richard Trumka famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A worker voting for Mitt Romney is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders,
-- Richard Trumka

#Voting #Chickens #Workers
There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. Well work for it, sisters and brothers. Well 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

#Brother #America #Together
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

#People #Pay #Corporations
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

#Winning #People #Democracy
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

#Support #Vision #President
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

#Lying #Sick #Care
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

#Jobs #America #Support
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

#Running #Independent #Leader
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

#Dream #Responsibility #Hard Work
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

#Jobs #Air #Safety
Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America!
-- Richard Trumka

#Pride #Opportunity #Years
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

#Past #Years #Eight
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

#America #Erosion #Political
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

#Wall #Economic Inequality #Goal
Better world. Better life for everybody, every worker. Poor kids oughta be able to go anyplace their brains will take them. Not where Daddy or Mommy's pocketbooks can send them. Everybody oughta have health care, everybody oughta have some retirement security, every American. Every one. Everybody oughta have a decent good job. That's what I believe in, and that's what I fight every day to try to achieve.
-- Richard Trumka

#Retirement #Jobs #Believe
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

#Dream #Responsibility #Fighting
You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.
-- Richard Trumka

#Party #Names #Giving
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

#Believe #Wings #Political
I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.
-- Richard Trumka

#Expression #Freedom Of Speech #President

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