Richard Trumka Quotes

I think the basis - the foundation - has already been laid for a society where people will work together and enjoy the wealth of the whole nation together. I think this will be accomplished because this is the theme of the revolutionary government's program.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

What it missing, I think, is this notion of the common good.

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don't succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.

Every American is dependent on every other American; that no segment of our people can prosper without the prosperity of all; that in truth we must all go forward together.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.

I believe in cooperating for the common good.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.

Pennsylvania is home to some of the hardest-working, toughest, most decent people in America.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Give me your trust and confidence, knowing that what I seek is for the good of Fiji, for the good of us all.

I don't think I've ever had a minute off in Israel. I've been completely and utterly devoted to what Hanadiv does. I'm not saying I'm a good guy for that. It's just the way the dice have fallen.

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.

No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?

We all do better when we all do better.