Unions Quotes

I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past.

Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.