Jim Mattox Quotes

I think we're a working man's band.

I think once you meet me, you realize I'm not necessarily some soft yoga guy. I've been on the picket line. I've been in the union halls. I'll drink a Miller Lite with you.

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

We need unions to make sure that working people have a legitimate and consistent voice.

My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.

We were a working man's boy band.

People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.

I love playing the common man.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people.

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.