94 Quotes by John Sweeney

We cannot afford to stand by and wait for the federal government to take action. So we're going to take it on state by state.

We checked and he wasn't given any preferential treatment.

There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.

We had several good opportunities on goal in the second half. We played well tonight, but we see where we need to improve.

Employers are all too eager to exploit workers. This is no time to make that easier. What a double tragedy it would be to allow the destruction of Hurricane Katrina to depress living standards even further. Taking advantage of a national tragedy to get rid of a protection for workers the corporate backers of the White House have long wanted to remove is nothing less than profiteering.

There's more emphasis on what the person has achieved than there is on observing what time they're in in the morning or leaving at night.

I've been hearing more workers -- including former Enron workers -- say they now wish they'd had a union.

Compared to 10 years ago, individuals are now expected to live, on average, two years longer, and health care and other expenses have grown. ... We believe that we're assisting individual investors ... by reducing the possibility that Americans will outlive their hard-earned retirement savings.

Despite the same, tired old scare tactics of the special interests, under the governor's budget New York will continue to spend more money than any other state on providing quality health care to its citizens. If the special interests want the taxpayers to spend even more than the record amounts they already provide, then the special interests need to say which tax they would raise or what other area of the budget they would cut.