Gary David Goldberg Quotes

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.

People ask me, 'Why don't you take time off?' but the working class doesn't take time off. They're out there working every day. That's what I do, too. I want them to know there is hope, and I'm out there just like they are.

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

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

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.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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

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.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.

I was raised as a real worker: you know, you get out and get a real job.

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

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

We were a working man's boy band.

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

If I'm going to work for twelve hours a day, I want twelve hours of awesomeness!

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life.