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"The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic."
"My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer."
"I recognize that as governor, my job is to sit on the other side of the table from the public sector unions and negotiate effectively on behalf of all the taxpayers of the state, including all of you."
"The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labor which characterizes the society we are aiming at."
"Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations."
"It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union."
"Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them."
"NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon."
"When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon."
"The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China."
"The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals."
"At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law."
"There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity."
"To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable."
"We’ve got customers. We’ve got suppliers. We’ve got employees. We’ve got unions. We’ve got communities. We’ve got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails."
"They [unions] used straight Marxist rhetoric [in 1930s] - just the values were changed."
"Starting with [Ronald] Regan it became quite open, the attack on unions. It wasn't the Pinkertons anymore, but it was just not applying the laws."
"The number of illegal firings tripled during the [Ronald] Reagan years. It was at that time that you started getting these companies that specialized in how to destroy unions."
"The attack on unions has been far more extreme here [in U.S], and it has been much more successful."
"[Companies that specialized in how to destroy unions] don't make it a secret, and they have all sorts of techniques for management to destroy unions."
