Working People Quotes

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

Forward, Down, Working

I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface.
David O. Russell

Love, Real, Working

Working people have alot of bad habits, but the worst of these is work.
Clarence Darrow

Work, Bad, Working

It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
Neil Young

Cool, Happy, Working

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
Samuel Gompers

Working, Against, Worst

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.
William Hague

Children, Bit, Month

We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
James P. Hoffa

Good, War, Fight

There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
Harry Bridges

Life, Hope, War

Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.
Lech Walesa

Courage, Working, Sense

What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.
Lech Walesa

Life, Working, Impossible

We have the hardest working people in the world, the most adaptable and the most congenial to employ.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Working, Hardest, Congenial

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.
Caroline Kennedy

May, Working, Others

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.
Cornel West

Working, Poor, Here

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.
J. J. Abrams

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Joe Baca

Good, Character, Real

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
Cornel West

Betrayal, Focus, Working

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
John J. Sweeney

Success, Work, America

The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
Kevin Rudd

Good, Living, Working

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
Frances O'Grady

Work, Strong, Decision

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.
Cornel West

Working, Others, Poor

We need to put strong Democratic pressure on President Obama in the name of poor and working people.
Cornel West

Strong, Working, Put

Time and again we have learned that the best way to achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
Chris Chocola

Time, Money, Best

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
James Sinegal

Working, Fighting, Dream

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
Dr. Dre

Women, Black, Earth

Bush is giving the rich a tax cut instead of putting that cut in the pockets of working people.
Carol Moseley Braun

Giving, Working, Rich

We're working people, and that's what we like to do, work.
Paul Prudhomme

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.
Helen Clark

Democracy, Working, Fair

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
David Oyelowo

Life, Education, Family

While these attitudes are more visible when direct- ed at government, there is ample evidence that many working people distrust their own union as much as they do the corporation they work for.
Robert Teeter

Work, Government, Working

The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
Walter Ulbricht

Time, Struggle, Working

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