Dick Gephardt Quotes

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

I will stand with unions wholeheartedly, and that's the problem - the Democratic Party wants to say that, but their actions do not mirror that.

We'll be competitive with organized labor, we're also competitive with regular, unorganized labor, working people who see their stakes and their future in the plans we're putting forward to move Massachusetts forward.

I'm pro Union.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.

Republicans are always much more supportive of unions in Poland than they are of unions in the United States.

I am always on the side of labor when there is any compromise to be made.

The Socialists are no fomenters of strikes; they know too well that a strike is a two-edged weapon, wounding the proletariat more deeply and more grievously than the capitalist. But, when the strike is declared, they take their part in the fight. They organize and assist the workers, protecting them against the snares of the police and the brutality of the military, and giving them such moral and material support as is in their power

If the American working people were as I would like them to be, they would all be socialists and I would be President.

My heart lies with the workers.

For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

I'm not anti-union.

And if you are going to truly stand with workers, it also means embracing solidarity, not attempting through lame talking points to pit union workers against non-union workers.

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

I am a huge believer in organized labor. Period. Full stop.

I fight like a daggone wild man for labor unions.

I support collective bargaining everywhere.

If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

Everyone should have the right to join a strong union that will always have your back.

I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.

Speaking as a human being, not as a businessman - the unions are great. The unions are great for the working people because they protect you, but I didn't see them that way as a young man. First of all, the papers would connect them with thee communists - labor unions were communists.

I think in the '50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it's in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.

I've never bashed a union in my life.