"Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s."

-- Linda Chavez

#Heyday Quotes #Cards Quotes #Unions Quotes

“I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.”
“It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.”

Source : Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.
“I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.”
“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.”
“The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.”
“I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.”
“Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.”
“I've always been very zealous about not invading other people's private spaces.”

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