Best American Workers Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“As we celebrate Labor Day, it is important to recognize the contributions of labor unions' crucial role in building and safeguarding the rights of American workers, including their wages, benefits, and working conditions.”

“Most car companies in the world are saying they're going to electric vehicles. That's an inevitability. The question is, 'Can we do that in a way that's going to be really good for our economy and for American workers and American consumers?'”

“Reforms are needed to stem the tide of outsourcing good jobs to other nations and to educate and train American workers to meet the challenges of the 21st-century world economy.”

“After Trump, it will be a different Republican party... and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.”

“The fact is, there are far more customers for American products outside of the U.S. than there are here at home. With open markets and a level playing field, American workers can out-compete workers anywhere in the world.”

“Our trade negotiations should ensure that American workers are protected and that there are mechanisms in place to deal with other countries cheating.”

“The NLRB provides important protections to American workers.”

“Higher wages for American workers are not just good for American families, they are good for our economy. I will keep fighting for a raise for hard working Americans so our families can afford housing, help their children get a quality education, and secure a good retirement.”

“We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.”

“American workers and American entrepreneurs can compete with anybody, anywhere if our government will stop making America a cost-prohibitive place to do business.”

“When American workers are losing their jobs to people in other countries, Washington cannot afford to ignore this disturbing trend any longer. While Democratic presidential candidates want to just blame U.S. corporations, the reality is that their strategy won't help protect American workers or save their jobs.”

“Our tax system should support American workers, not encourage investment overseas.”

“I am pro-vaccine, but I am anti-government mandates on workers because I support the rights of American workers.”

“We must put American workers first.”

“Stop demonizing American workers who don't belong to unions who are happy in their jobs.”

“American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.”

“U.S. trade policy has been a disaster for American workers.”

“American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.”

“I agree with President Trump that our trade deals need to be renegotiated so they are more fair to American workers.”

“It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.”

“We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.”

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

“I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.”

“Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.”

“When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field.”

“The Labor Department's Hall of Honor recognizes men and women - like Cesar Chavez, Helen Keller and the Workers of the Memphis Sanitation Strike - who have made invaluable contributions to the welfare of American workers.”

“Our government should be working to enhance national security and protect American workers, and its leaders should be persons whose judgment and ethical history are beyond reproach.”

“If immigration reform is bad for America's workers, then why does virtually every group that represents American workers support it so enthusiastically?”

“Free trade is an important component of our economy, but it also has to be fair. Too often, the needs of American workers are ignored while the interests of huge corporations are the focus of these trade deals.”

“American workers have lost jobs and businesses have been damaged because of cyber attacks, and that's why it will continue to be a top priority of mine to put the necessary resources in place to help our nation prepare for and combat future cyber attacks.”

“The Republican Party is doubling down on this trickle-down theory that says, 'Thou shalt concentrate wealth at the very top of our society. Thou shalt remove regulation from wherever you find it, even on Wall Street. And thou shalt keep wages low for American workers so that we can be more competitive.'”

“I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.”

“Less than 8 percent of private sector workers belonged to a union in 2004, and, overall, only 12.5 percent of American workers carry a union card - down from about one-third of workers in labor's heydays in the 1950s.”

“I have previously secured funding to train American workers in the offshore wind industry, and I will continue to fight for this critical clean energy industry.”

“American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.”

“We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.”

“The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.”

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

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

“Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, or death.”

“American workers are first rate.”

“Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.”

“We have a theory on how to constrain the size of government, but it has to be focused on how to make the U.S. competitive, and it has to be about jobs and wages for American workers.”

“While writing my memoir, 'When Skateboards Will Be Free,' I would sometimes have to pore over hours of microfilm at the New York Public Library in order to try to get one obscure detail right. For instance, was the Socialist Workers Party originally called the American Workers Party or the Workers Party of the United States?”

“During three decades from 1947 to 1977, the nation implemented what might be called a basic bargain with American workers. Employers paid them enough to buy what they produced.”

“There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.”

“Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.”

“One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.”

“American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.”

“Policies from Congress should make life easier for American workers, families and businesses, not harder.”

“Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.”

“Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.”

“The right to organize is a fundamental right for American workers.”

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

“America's workers face a battle for their jobs. They are the finest workers in the world. American workers grow, harvest, and mine some of the world's highest quality and most plentiful raw materials.”

“Unfortunately, there is a long history of union bosses using money from American workers for lavish personal expenses. This corruption is unacceptable and is anti-worker.”

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

“In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.”

“I will continue to fight for commonsense policies to improve the lives of American workers, businesses and families.”

“Enforcing trade deals is spot on. Acting in the interest of American workers is correct. But large-scale tariffs are a terrible idea.”