Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I think everybody in my government now understands and appreciates that people who work in a whole variety of traditional industries across our state have good, decent jobs.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.

As far as being a deliveryman is concerned, I see nothing wrong with being a delivery man. You know, black or white or Hispanic or Chinese or whatever, you know? It's a job.

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.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

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.

Full employment means not only jobs--but productive jobs. Americans do not regard jobs that pay substandard wages as productive jobs.

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 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.

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

I am proud to stand with working families and honored to have AFGE's support.

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.

I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country.

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.

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.

Meat workers may have been looked down upon socially, but at least they were well-paid and were a fit and lively bunch as a result of hard, honest physical work.

Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

I'm a big believer that when we put so much into our jobs - and everyone does - you deserve to be get paid for it instead of doing a gig and then having to work in a bar for eight hours.