Andy Rooney Quotes

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

To frustrated Americans who have begun boycotting BP: Welcome to the club. It's great not to be the only member any more!

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

The hospital strikers have demonstrated that you don't get a job done unless you show the Man you're not afraid...If you're not willing to pay that price, then you don't deserve the rewards or benefits that go along with it.

Boycotts are as American as apple pie.

If you athletes boycott the Olympics, it will be like a rock dropping in the water. The ripples and waves will be felt all over. You can be that rock. No one will die and that is the way to fight.

The consumer boycott is the only open door in the dark corridor of nothingness down which farm workers have had to walk for many years. It is a gate of hope through which they expect to find the sunlight of a better life for themselves and their families.

… let a firm Resolution be taken, by Male and Female, never to appear with one single Shred that comes from England, and let all the People say AMEN!

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 - with the goal of making flying good again.

'Boycott caused all the trouble,' they say, as if I could have canvassed all those people personally to take a stand in 1983. Nonsense! The committee were the ones with the power to make the decisions, not me. They started the unrest, they did the sackings, and they reaped what they sowed.

My experience bears out an adage about airlines: People almost always opt for convenience and price, even while complaining loudly about crowded planes and a dearth of amenities.

When my people are dying, that's when you gonna catch me protesting. I'm not gonna protest because somebody got offered not the amount of money they wanted to get offered. If you don't like what they're offering you, just no longer do business with them.

I have, from time to time, stopped using it for books, when they pissed me off about something - the negotiation with Hachette, for instance. I thought that was outrageous bullying, and I discontinued using Amazon for books. I did use it for socks, but I didn't use it to buy books.

You wanna boycott me, that's fine, but I'm not changing my advertising.

I believe in a nonviolent movement of boycott, divestment, sanctions.

I don't boycott any station.

There's no anger in my act towards anyone other than myself... and maybe airlines.

Don't underestimate the power of the vigilante consumer.

I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

When you're dealing with boycotts, you don't need everyone. You just need enough to be effective.

Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent.