"Labor is not fighting for a larger slice of the national pie. Labor is fighting for a larger pie."

"We have a saying in the union: "If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possi…"

"There's a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the…"

"American labor had better roll up its sleeves, it had better get the stiffest broom and brush it can find, and the st…"

"We live in a world in which the common denominator that binds the human family together has been reduced to its simpl…"

"The trouble is that industry operates on the basis of these double economic and moral standards. They say to the work…"

"We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pension plans to people who don't need them, then by the eterna…"

"We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America."

"You cannot make peace and freedom secure in the world as long as hundreds of millions of people are denied the necess…"

"The American Dream is not about gadgets. It’s not about the size of our gross national product. It’s not about the le…"