Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums of money to some of the richest people who have ever existed on Earth.

It doesn't matter how much money you've got, or how many connections, there's always something you want that's out of reach.

Under President Obama, we have spent more money - he has spent more money than any other president in this history, actually, the combined total from Washington up to George W. Bush. President Obama has racked up more spending, $1 trillion deficits. And it's time that he join us in this effort to get our fiscal house in order.

But even with no money you could still go to places like the Scotch Club and, you know, John Lennon might be sitting right over there, but I was certainly not a part of any of that circle. I was truly peripheral.