All Quotes

Labor Day 2013 is special. This year marks the centennial of the U.S. Department of Labor - 100 years of working for America's workers.
‐‐ Thomas Perez

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

Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
‐‐ James P. Hoffa

Labor disgraces no man; unfortunately, you occasionally find men who disgrace labor.
‐‐ Ulysses S. Grant

Labor force participation peaked in early 2000, so its decline began well before the Great Recession. A portion of that decline clearly relates to the aging of the baby boom generation. But the pace of decline accelerated with the recession.
‐‐ Janet Yellen

Labor gives birth to ideas.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
‐‐ Lara Giddings

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer's privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.
‐‐ Lucy Larcom

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.
‐‐ Bill Shorten

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
‐‐ James Weldon Johnson

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
‐‐ Ferdinand Lassalle

Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a 'work' of man.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

Labor looks different in the 21st century. And so should our job training programs.
‐‐ Leila Janah

Labor must work harder to attract and retain members. The party should be cheaper to join with discounted rates available for union members as well as for students, pensioners, and people out of work.
‐‐ Bill Shorten

Labor should be recognized as entitled to consult with management in the mutual interest. Labor cannot be driven, and business cannot be successful unless the men employed in it are enthusiastic and loyal. That loyalty cannot be obtained with a big stick; it must be based upon fair dealing and sympathy.
‐‐ Charles M. Schwab

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.
‐‐ Bill Shorten

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
‐‐ George Washington

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.
‐‐ Michael Gove

Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.
‐‐ Thorstein Veblen

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.
‐‐ Richard Curtis

Laboratory experiments, field observations and atmospheric modeling calculations have now established that chemical reactions occurring on PSC particles play a central role in polar ozone depletion.
‐‐ Mario J. Molina

Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
‐‐ Leland Stanford

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.
‐‐ Robert Webb

Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
‐‐ Tony Blair

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.
‐‐ Samuel Smiles

Labour ministers often look puzzled when reports show that Britain has one of the lowest levels of social mobility in the developed world. They just don't get it. They see poverty, inequality, fairness, as all about income. For the past 12 years, they have relied on tax credits to solve this. But tax credits do not solve poverty: they mask it.
‐‐ Theresa May

Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Labour's task for government is to build consent for an outward-looking Britain as the best way to advance not just our interests, but also our values at a time of challenge, both at home and abroad.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.
‐‐ Martin Jacques

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
‐‐ Adam Smith

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.
‐‐ Estelle

Lacey didn't like it, even though he was born here, I understand. I mean, he was born in Brooklyn. He told the staff that they better prepare themselves to say goodbye to some of their friends.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

Lacey had this huge chip on his shoulder. He walked into the room thinking that the people didn't welcome him and didn't like him. He gave the impression that he didn't understand the Voice and New York, and he didn't want to.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

Lacey said if he wanted to read a daily or regular critiques of the Bush administration, he would read the New York Times, and that's not what he wanted in the Village Voice.
‐‐ Sydney Schanberg

Lack of charisma can be fatal.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

Lack of confidence - every time I start a new piece of work, it seems I have to spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

Lack of consistency is a weakness shared by all nations.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
‐‐ Ellen Key

Lack of education, old age, bad health or discrimination - these are causes of poverty, and the way to attack it is to go to the root.
‐‐ Robert Kennedy

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

Lack of money is the root of all evil.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.
‐‐ Sandra Lee