Richard Lamm Quotes

Take care of your working-class citizens, and your working-class citizens will take care of you.

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

The priority of work over capital places an obligation in justice upon employers to consider the welfare of the workers before the increase of profits.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

The global economy shall not run without the consent of the workers….We demand fair trade, not free trade.

What the labor movement did in this country is to make sure that capitalism worked.

The labor movement has lifted more people out of poverty than all the programs in the country.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

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.

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

I think unionization is good public policy. I think when families secure their economic future, that's good for everyone.

Workers have kept faith in American institutions. Most of the conflicts, which have occurred have been when labor's right to live has been challenged and denied.

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

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.

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.

We must ensure that every worker has healthcare and is able to save for their retirement. We must ensure that our workers have safe and health working conditions.

To the ordinary working man, the sort you would meet in any pub on Saturday night, Socialism does not mean much more than better wages and shorter hours and nobody bossing you about.

Affirm the priority of work over capital and the fact that material goods are meant for all … The priority of work over capital places an obligation in justice upon employers to consider the welfare of the workers before the increase of profits.

I will only stop defending the rights of workers when I die.

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.