Charles B. Rangel Quotes

I'm the first secretary of labor in the 21st century, and the competitiveness of the American work force and the modernization of decades-old regulations have been among our top priorities.

I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation in the benefits of running a smooth industrial machine.

If we are to create a new agenda for family/work policies, employers and employees have to take a seat at the same table and recognize their mutual gains.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

We need to give workers more control over their training, health care, and their pensions.

Paid leave is worth every penny.

I've proven myself a champion of workers' rights, particularly teachers.

Working parents, working families, and expectant workers are vital members of our workforce. Ensuring their success is how we maintain our global economic advantage.

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

More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America's future.

I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

A business is good if it gives a decent day's reward for a decent day's work, treats people decently, and gives them a voice at the top.

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.

Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

Since coming to Congress in 1971, I have been fighting to help create an environment where the goals of the National Work and the Family Month can become a reality.

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

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.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

When labor is strong, America is strong.