Picket Quotations

By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow. The house was a haven amid the madness of the city: lily of the valley grew near our front gate, Virginia creeper decked the green picket fence.

It's all kind of a big illusion: the white picket fence and the perfect marriage and the kids. Check that box off, check that box off, and move forward.

More people cross picket lines and think less about the consequences.

Negotiating is really the art of the possible. I'm not sure you're going to get guys making a million dollars a year to walk a picket line.

She will empower these people to hold the picket line. We're just trying to build an army against these guys.

If I was making a prediction today, we'll be on the picket line, forced there by DaimlerChrysler management,

I am saddened very much by the latest events. I don't really know where we go from here. Looks like at this time we're in for the long haul. I'm fed up -- looks like we are just going to have to walk the picket lines. My members are losing money. Ever day it is getting worse, than getting better.

If we stay strong, if you don't cross that picket line, the company will have no choice but to contact us.

I encourage you to donate the salary that you earned while others walked the picket line.

My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in a white picket neighborhood.

Our members will continue to man the picket line, and the solidarity and spirits of our members remain strong. There has been no change in the resolve of the IAM.

Roger Hughes was defamed and had his privacy infringed upon. It's one thing for this union to go out and picket and leaflet his sites. That's fair, that's lawful, ... But it's quite another thing to put out there that he's a pedophile and a danger to children. That's wrong.

Yeah, you got the family dog and the white picket fence, and you just think that's all there is. Some of us had to grow up in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods, and we just had to adapt to our environment. I know that it's wrong. But people act like it's some crazy thing they never heard of. They don't know.

We have more than 1,000 of our team members who turned out this morning to work at the plant, ... They met at a staging area and that number far exceeds the 200 people on the picket line.

We are ready to play unconditionally and immediately, but apparently we've been locked out. We took the picket signs down, and we did it for all the audience members and all of New York.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Crestline teachers don't want to strike. We want to be in our classrooms, working with our students. That's where my heart is, with the kids. We've dedicated our careers to educating Crestline's children, and walking a picket line is not how many of us want to start the school year.

Every other Sutter hospital has recognized the importance of our reasonable requests. What is wrong with Eden Medical Center? An industry standard contract directly improves the quality of care our patients would receive. I do not want to strike, but like the caregivers who walked the picket line for nine weeks at CPMC, I am willing to do whatever it takes.

What they are saying is this isn't good enough. Workers want to be at the bargaining table and not the picket line.

What happened today confirms what we said all along. It's better to be at the bargaining table than on the picket line.

There are hundreds of picket signs lined up and ready to go.

I'm not surprised by the finding that these young women place a high value on marriage, ... The poor do not differ from the rest of America in their aspirations. They want college, a profession, marriage, a house with a picket fence. What distinguishes them is some combination of opportunity and concrete steps from their current reality to their future dream. Basically, what these women have is a magical outlook on life.

If John Kerry respects our picket line tomorrow, I think we respect John Kerry.

Instead of setting up picket lines, they should be sending that final offer out for a vote, ... Let the people decide.

On campuses and in the areas outside each and every university entrance there are solid picket lines and no one is going in. Students have decided to show their support by not going in.

It was heartfelt that they named the school after my father. But there are certain principles that you have to guide your life with, and we just don't cross picket lines.

They will continue to be on the picket line until a new contract is reached.

The important thing is that what happened today is what we've been saying all along, and that is, it's better to be at the bargaining table than on the picket line.

The main thing is there is so much work on the go here. I mean the day we went on strike, we had other customers and other companies driving by the picket line offering guys jobs.

A contract that provides the good jobs for working families certainly won't be won at the bargaining table. The only way you can win that is either on the picket lines, and in the community.

It's almost kind of the worst scenario for the union. I would think that sometime in the next couple of weeks you might see some striking mechanics crossing the picket line to go back to work.

For me, I like to work, you know what I'm saying? Being off a whole week ... there was nothing to do. The picket line is not for me.

Everyone on the picket line who thought they could be out of a job for good will be out of a job for good.

Then we are going to picket their houses, and the schools of their kids, and go to their work. If they are going to do this to us, we are going to respond in the same way, to let people know their neighbors are extremists, that they are anti-immigrant. They are going to hear from us.

We were ready to go another two years (on the picket line). I'm surprised it ended early.

We think it's best for everyone involved . . . if these restrictions are adhered to and are followed so we can operate safely and those who are on strike can picket safely.

We just extended our strike to the streets that happened to be in front of those railroad facilities. We appreciate the solidarity if someone chose not to cross the picket line.