Quotes with union

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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Barack Obama I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Boris Johnson If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Carlos Fuentes If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
    Doing It Our Way, New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Ronald Reagan If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Andrew Jackson If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Bao Dai In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
    Bao Dai
    Vietnamese emperor
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  • Aesop In union there is strength.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Barack Obama It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Joseph Brodsky It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Ben Nelson Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
    Ben Nelson
    American politician, businessman and lawyer (1941 - )
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  • Karl Kraus Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Campbell Brown More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ari Fleischer Most of the State of the Union will not be about Iraq. Most of the State of the Union will be about improving America's economy and providing greater access to health care for millions of American people, including senior citizens.
    Ari Fleischer
    American media consultant and political aide (1960 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Claiborne Pell My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea faded to black in the early 1990s. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, which had propped up its old Communist ally with cheap fuel oil, North Korea's creakily inefficient economy collapsed. Power stations rusted into ruin.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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