KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Andy Stern Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Andy Stern

Showing 11-19 of 19 Quotes by Andy Stern

I was too much of a victim of the model I created. I tried Change to Win and helping Obama, and then I just ran out of Andy Stern ideas.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Andy Change Created Helping Ideas Just Model Much Obama Out Ran Stern Then Too Too Much Tried Victim Win I Tried

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The union is much more than me, and when you think the union is you and it's not about who you represent, I think you've sort of lost your morals and focus and the purpose of your leadership.

~Andy Stern

Topics: About Focus Leadership Lost Me Morals More Much Purpose Represent Sort Than Think Union Who You Your I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

~Andy Stern

Topics: America Been Best Class Cost Creating Dime Ever Government Had Job Middle Middle Class Movement Program Union

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Acting America Congress Country Deal Does Economic First Got He Here How Incapable Like Living Our Plan President Really Revolution Seem Sort Third Through Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'll never run for office. But I intend, either on the fiscal commission or on issues like immigration, to hopefully have my voice be heard.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Commission Either Fiscal Heard Hopefully Immigration Intend Issues Like Never Office Run Voice

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Interests Members Party Political Political Party Should Unions

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no correlation between the success of workers and how the labor movement is structured.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Between Correlation How Issue Labor Labor Movement Movement Say States Structural Structured Success United United States Workers Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Cannot Change Country Enough Group Having Limited Make Making Membership Needs Only Our People Really Same Same Time Social Social Change Strength Think Time Understand Until We Cannot Work Workers I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.

~Andy Stern

Topics: Allowed Because Both Disappearing Economy Global Jobs Life Live Manufacturing Middle-Class Nature Other People Professions Union Unions Unskilled Were

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: November 22nd, 1950

Links

Find Andy Stern on Amazon

Related Authors

Susan B. Anthony
Cesar Chavez
Noam Chomsky
Rosa Parks
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Tubman
Malcolm X

Popular Authors

Alexander Graham Bell Audrey Hepburn Eartha Kitt Bill Murray Rainer Maria Rilke Jackie Robinson Arnold Schwarzenegger H. G. Wells

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Cool Education Graduation Knowledge Movies Nature Travel