#erica

Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#american #american workers #belonged #card #carry

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to. ↗

— Michael Caine

#accent #always #american #american cinema #any

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#antagonism #economic #economic freedom #freedom #gold

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#america #american #american consumers #asia #attractive

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #dollar #evening #needs #theme

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations. ↗

— George Carey

#build #going #hope #i #must

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great. ↗

— George Carey

#back #christianity #england #foundations #get

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost. ↗

— Leslie Caron

#american #any #cost #love #romance

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#already #america #go #i #scotland

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? ↗

— Fidel Castro

#africa #america #asia #capitalism #failure