Tom Guiry Quotes

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

It's hard to make a living in this business. Unions aren't as strong as they used to be. For a journeyman actor - someone who doesn't have a famous name but has consistent work in theater or film or TV - it has become harder to get through, harder to raise a family.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

I was trying to support a family with writing. I didn't have a private income. I had no other profession.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

We need to be a party saying, 'We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.'

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

Americans want jobs. They want affordable health insurance. They want an education.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

My dad was a house painter. He was often unemployed by the time I came along.

When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.

You can't take a coal miner making $95,000 a year, the only work in these parts where you can support a family without having to hold down three jobs at once... and tell them, 'You can make minimum wage,' or, 'We can give you job training for jobs that don't exist in West Virginia.'

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

Let's face it - being a nurse, a single mom of eight kids, I would not be able to provide for them in any way shape or form.