Quotes by John Sweeney - Page 1

The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
John Sweeney / Journalist
Infuriating
Passion
Bbc
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I'm a passionate man and a passionate reporter. I've also got a loud voice.
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Loud
Passionate
Reporter
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There had to be something else out there that would help me change. I wanted to live.
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Something Else
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People actually get sponsors based on the merits of the Cup, not on the merits of the sailors.
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Sponsors
Based
Cup
Merits
Sailors
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I was invincible, at least that's what I wanted you to think, and I wanted me to think it, too.
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Invincible
Thinking
Wanted
Least
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We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.
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Guy
Upstairs
Addressing
Concerns
Depend
Dire
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The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.
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Administration
Legislation
Pay
Workers
Bush
Bush Administration
Opposed
Overtime
Preserve
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I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.
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Bed
Otherwise
Powerful People
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I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
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Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Stronger
Unions
Workers
Again
Same
Goes
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When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows.
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Economic Inequality
Fall
Gaps
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It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.
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Management
Money Laundering
Structure
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Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
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Stronger
Attack
Union
Union Movement
Working People
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There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
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Consensus
Globalization
Growing
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America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.
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Clean
Deserve
Strings
Vote
Workers
Attached
Hurts
Helps
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I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource - their workers.
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Economic Inequality
Powerful
Thinking
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In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
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Democratic
Form
Globalization
Support
Authoritarian
Current
Democratic Societies
Impose
Leaders
Societies
Sustained
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We can no longer allow multinationals to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
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Agents
Newspapers
Workplace
Allow
Multinational
Parade
Subvert
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Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
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Nike
Economy
Globalization
United States
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We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
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Agents
Democracy
Progress
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Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?
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Force
Last Year
Taxpayers
Bill
Foot
Wal-Mart
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Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
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Able
Economy
Global Economy
Produce
Prosperous
Workers
True
Buy
Ford
Global
Henry
National
Right
Requires
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I wish I hadn't lost it, and for the rest of my life I can never again lose my temper on TV. The BBC could have sacked me and that would have been the end of my career on TV.
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Lost
Temper
Wish
Life Me My Life
Tv
Again
Life Me Lose
Bbc
Career
Rest
Lose
Sacked
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But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.
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Apology
Mistake
New Generation
Allow
Generation
Make Up
Minds
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Safety is a basic human need. People with a sense of security and belonging are stabilized for learning, creating, innovating. A group of wonderfully cared for, confident individuals will generate great ideas.
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Creating
Ideas
People
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In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
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Nike
Borders
Burma
China
Economy
Global Economy
Indonesia
Standards
States
United States
Workers
Rules
Clearly
Global
No Rules
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They had taken me to an exhibit called 'Psychiatry: Industry of Death' on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it - big time.
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Boulevard
Hollywood
Industry
Lost
Taken
Time Death Me
Big Time
Death Time Me
Set
Exhibit
Feared
Psychiatrists
Scientologist
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For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.
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Breadth
Globalization
Middle Class
Poorest
Scope
Success Work Opportunity
Climb
Measure
Offered
Working People
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Because of GLHR's crusades... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.
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Fighting
Impact
Order
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The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
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Communication
Acknowledge
Add
Cease
Church
Family Members
Members
Adds
Attack
Communications
Expelled
Fundamental
Human Right
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Hard-working immigrant workers in this country deserve a real path to citizenship as a part of comprehensive immigration reform...We will continue to work with the immigrant rights community and our allies in Congress to devise a truly comprehensive model that places immigrant and workers' rights at the head of the line.
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Country
Hard Work
Real
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As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.
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Children
Commitment
Strong
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