James P. Hoffa Quotes

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

I don't think we should sell out the American worker. That's why I am opposed to NAFTA.

Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

I am not a free trader. I am not a free trader. I believe an American worker who has worked hard and played by the rules should be rewarded. I don't believe that companies who take their jobs overseas should be rewarded with tax breaks.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.

Nafta has been responsible for a race to the bottom in standards across North America, with working conditions declining along with wages.

I am going to bring back our jobs to Ohio and Pennsylvania and New York and Michigan and all of America. And I am not going to let companies move to other countries, firing their employees along the way without consequence. Not going to happen anymore.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.

What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Trade helps bring us products cheaply, but there is no guarantee whatsoever to assume that it will allow us to replace the jobs that have been lost, and there is no mechanism under productivity that says that, either.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

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.'

Hard-working men and women who have made America the strongest nation in the world are betrayed by Washington's trade policy.

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

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

Trump can bring jobs back, but they will be minimal-wage jobs, not the high-paying jobs of the 1950s.

Over the years, America had become more like Wal-Mart. It had gotten cheap. Prices were lower, and wages were lower. There were fewer union factory jobs and more part-time jobs as greeters.

Donald Trump has courageously taken on the entrenched special interests who sought to suppress the working people of this country and who have sought to deny them a livable wage.