Grant Shapps Quotes

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we can put more money in the pockets of middle class families.

I absolutely believe that we're the workers' party. We are the party that has always been at the forefront of the big social changes that have promoted women and working people.

The NWO... we feel like we are the people's choice; we're doing things for the working man.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

The future of Labor is the future of America.

Fellow workers, this is the Continental Congress of the working class. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power.

Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie.

I stand with the working-class citizens.

The Democratic Party is supposed to be the party that looks out for the working-class citizens.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.

The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

Only with the tools of production in their own hands could the workers ever hope to control their own lives and receive the fruits of their labor.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

If we are going to reverse the race to the bottom, workers must have the right to engage in collective bargaining.

What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America's working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.