Barbara Boxer Quotes

Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy; assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old.

This is the greatest country in the world for people who want to work, but we have to make sure that this is always true..

Work is a right, which is ensured to be available for every able citizen.

A man’s right to his job transcends the right of private property.

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.

As we say we fight for working people, we have to make sure our policies reflect that.

At times you feel like you're the only voice speaking out to improve the working conditions of people, whether it's to be able to collectively bargain, to get adequate pay, to know that you can come home safe out of a coal mine.

I'm willing to fight for Social Security, Medicare, student loans, U.S. jobs, equal pay, progressive taxation and full employment.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

I intend to fight to ensure that Connecticut workers have a level playing field when competing for jobs.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.

We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.

Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

The more time I spent in developing countries, and the more time I spent talking to poor people, I realized what they want more than anything is a good job.

Were the workers who sweated to put food on my table paid at least minimum wage? Did they get health benefits? Overtime? Were they unionized? Protected from pesticide exposure?

Your Irish railways employ thousands of men, whose working hours average twelve per day. Were they restricted to a forty-eight-hour week of labor, employment would he provided for thousands of Irishmen who at present are driven exiles from their native land.

The Negro claims, as a matter of simple justice, his full share in America's economic and social life. He sees adequate employment opportunities as a chief means of attaining this goal

They only ask for a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.

The unemployed have rights that are above charity. They have the right to work.

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

I have got to lay a foundation of personal security for the working people of this country and their families in order to succeed as your president.