Quote by Barack Obama
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

Other quotes by Barack Obama

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost. – Barack Obama

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Government
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. – Barack Obama

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power
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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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Other Quotes from
Family
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You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work. – Tori Spelling

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Family

Ive never had a divorce, but Ive seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that cant write about it. I take on their sorrow, so Im able to kind of express it, or their joy. – Dolly Parton

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Family

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. – Christina Applegate

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Family

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. – George Burns

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Family

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The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Home

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But theres a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. – Helen Keller

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Death

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away. – Anna Pavlova

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Happiness

Let your tears flow and where they go, let your sorrows follow. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Crying