Best American Workers Quotes

I am not supportive of large multi-national corporations that made billions a year in profit and don’t pay a nickel in taxes, nor am I supportive of those corporations who throw American workers out on the street and then move to China or Mexico.

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

[We need] to choose immigrants based on merit. Merit, skill, and proficiency. Doesn’t that sound nice? And to establish new immigration controls to boost wages and to ensure that open jobs are offered to American workers first.

No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country… By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level – I mean the wages of decent living.

And the reason that I was one of the first, not one of the last to be in opposition to the TPP is that American workers should not be forced to compete against people in Vietnam today making a minimum wage of $0.65 an hour. Look, what we have got to do is tell corporate America that they cannot continue to shut down. We’ve lost 60,000 factories since 2001. They’re going to start having to, if I’m president, invest in this country – not in China, not in Mexico.

What the American worker needs is more of what WalMart offers and less of what the government offers.

The average American worker enjoys amenities for which Croesus, Crassus, the Medici, and Louis XIV would have envied him.

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.

I’m pro-trade, but I’m pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

The American worker is more productive than he’s ever been.

At this point, American workers are pretty respectful of the bosses they loathe.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions.

Look the, the American worker has been losing – for decades now. We’ve seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

In the heart of the Great Depression, millions of American workers did something they’d never done before: they joined a union. Emboldened by the passage of the Wagner Act, which made collective bargaining easier, unions organized industries across the country, remaking the economy.

I just don’t think there’s that many people who think it’s wrong to have control on our borders. That’s not racism. It’s not racism to question some of the political correctness today that’s going on, to recognize that things are going as well as – for American workers, as they’d like, because people, their frustration is arising from a deep sense of unease that Washington is fiddling while their house is burning.

The American worker is more productive than he’s ever been. We’ve got more people to do it. We’ve got all the ingredients for a sensational future. It’s just that right now the athlete’s on the floor. This is a super athlete.

In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R.

President Bush said that American workers will need new skills to get the new jobs in the 21st century. Some of the skills they’re going to need are Spanish, Chinese, Korean, because that’s where the jobs went. Who better than Bush as an example of what can happen when you take a job without any training.

And Hillary Clinton is going to do nothing for the African- American worker, the Latino worker.

We will end the politics of profit. We will end the rule of special interests. We will end the raiding of our jobs by other countries. We will end the total disenfranchisement of the American voter and the American worker.

I’m going to take a series of actions on day one to protect American workers.

Globalization has delivered many benefits for international donors, but it’s the job of politicians to represent the people – and to put American workers first.

The average American worker gets something like 14 days of paid vacation. In my school, you’d use up ten of those taking care of your kids on teacher professional days, then tack on a couple more for kids getting sick.

I want to get everybody out of the shadows, get the economy working, and not let employers like Donald Trump exploit undocumented workers, which hurts them, but also hurts American workers.

An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid

It will level the playing field, … It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

While there are many illegal immigrants in our country who are good people, many, many, this doesn’t change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower skilled workers with less education, who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly pay back.

Our victory [2016] was a victory and a win for conservative values. And our victory was a win for everyone who believes it’s time to stand up for America, to stand up for the American worker, and to stand up for the American flag.

My every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.

While there are many illegal immigrants in America who are good people, many, many, this doesn’t change the fact that most illegal immigrants are lower skilled workers with less education, who compete directly against vulnerable American workers, and that these illegal workers draw much more out from the system than they can ever possibly pay back.

I will support legislation that benefits the American worker and prevents the outsourcing of American jobs.