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I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the hardest-working people I've ever met. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#blue-collar #community #ever #grew #i

I saw the prospect of serving as labor secretary as a wonderful opportunity to further the policies that I have been fighting for my whole life, and I had to seize it. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#fighting #further #had #i #labor

You have to work for everything. Marriage should not be any different. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#different #everything #marriage #should #work

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#companies #contracts #federal #get #hire

I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic. Look at all the teams in America that have folded, and the leagues. ↗

— Hope Solo

#bit #concept #fame #folded #football

I would hope more people would have optimism about where the Latino has come. How we have emerged, and that there will be more women, women of color especially Latinas who will get involved. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#color #come #emerged #especially #get

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#children #depend #family #food #forced

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#historic #our #people #played #reminded

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#children #department #efforts #here #labor

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest. ↗

— Al Franken

#back #doing #focused #getting #home