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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we ta

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

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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If youre sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I. – Barack Obama

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Money
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Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes, he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. Shake it off. Stop complainin. Stop grumblin. Stop cryin. We are going to press on. We have work to do. – Barack Obama

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work
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We cant get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we cant just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. – Barack Obama

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Education
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Other Quotes from
Family
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In a broken nest there are few whole eggs. – Chinese Proverb

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Family

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether its with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family. – Amy Winehouse

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Family

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. – Jessica Lange

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Family

Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women. – Muhammad Yunus

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Family

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All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. Its scary. – Barbara Kruger

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History

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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Poverty

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community. – M. Scott Peck

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Peace

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. – Mel Brooks

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War