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

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Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago. – Barack Obama

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We need earmark reform, and when Im President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely. – Barack Obama

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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. – Max Muller

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I play with my grandchildren. I tend to my garden, which I love. Of course, I love to read, and family is really what its all about. – Julie Andrews

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Everything I have, my career, my success, my family, I owe to America. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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My goal is to get everybody in America to do their family tree. – Henry Louis Gates

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. – Roland Barthes

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Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame. – Robert Anton Wilson

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