Membership Quotations

And I think we understand we cannot make social change for all workers until we have enough strength, membership strength, and at the same time having membership strength and only making change for a limited group of workers is not what our country really needs for people that work.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

I am thrilled to return as Honorary Captain of the GREEKs for HBCUs Team. I reflect fondly on my days at Florida A&M University, and how visible and active all of the sororities and fraternities were. Membership in Black Greek letter organizations on college campuses is preparation for a lifetime of service.

Membership of the United Nations gives every member the right to make a fool of himself, and that is a right of which the Soviet Union in this case has taken full advantage.

My family had a membership to the Riverside Yacht Club where my brother, Sandy, learned to sail, and I competed in local swim races. My sister, Marcia, became a competitive springboard diver, and my brother excelled in water polo.

I think that our primary concern is that the membership in our industry become active. I'm not talking about the candidates being active. I'm talking about the few hundred thousand people who work in the industry around the United States.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

Facebook is not very good at dealing with named groups; they're not very good at saying, 'We've got this book club and I'm a member and you're not.' But membership is one of the precursors to a lot of social action.

If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Private sector labors unions continue to suffer losses in their membership while public sector and service unions grow.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

The Scouts are a private organization and have every right to set their own membership standards.

Our participation in the single market, and our ability to help set its rules is the principal reason for our membership of the EU. So it is a vital interest for us to protect the integrity and fairness of the single market for all its members.

The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

We're not going to require teams to play if they're in an area affected by the storm. That's a decision they should make, along with their school boards. If the membership felt it was best that no games be played this week, we wouldn't play football. There hasn't been a great push to cancel games.

When we changed membership policies, we hemorrhaged a fair number of members, ... But we're looking forward. Orlando is a multicultural community. The face of new Orlando is going to be here.

Wexford Plantation is excited to bring college golf back to Hilton Head Island. The membership and staff have embraced the opportunity to have some of the best college golfers come to Wexford and compete.

We both made some concessions, but ... this ... will get the thing at least where the mayor will appoint the membership and allow them to go out and function, ... It's not everything I would have liked to have had. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes.

We're going to have to see Bob Kennedy's 4-H card before we can let him enter this. I think he's let his membership expire. And another thing - he had a secretary from the office carry that tree in here. He didn't carry it in himself, so how do we know it's his? And even if those two things don't disqualify him, our 'ugly' rule would knock him out of the competition, anyway.

We failed to agree over the nomination mode between the electoral college of delegates and direct party membership system.

We're seeing a huge surge in membership from companies that see Shanghai and China as a big chunk of their Asia opportunity.

We have no problem of funds because we have raised these from various banks. We have now decided to enlist new members. By the time we are ready to open, we would have a membership of more than 10,000 people, each of whom will have paid a fee of Rs.500.

The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true,

The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one's birthright of membership in the great human family.

What we lack in membership we make up in charm.

We have reached a historic point, ... Full membership negotiations will, God willing, begin tonight.

We have reached a collective-bargaining agreement subject to a membership vote.

We have requested the leadership of the TWU to take the actions necessary to direct its membership to immediately return to work and they have agreed to take such actions.

There is confusion regarding the position of the External Affairs Minister. We are trying for the membership of the Security Council of the United Nation. The UN has set up a high-level enquiry committee, which found the involvement of some companies of Switzerland, Italy and India, and after that Singh gave a statement that he is being implicated for supporting Saddam Hussein's regime.

There is no doubt that it will raise questions about the wisdom of Turkey's EU membership bid. How can it possibly claim to be a European country if it has such laws on the books, and if public prosecutors can bring such cases?

This promotes our membership and promotes member loyalty. The more fun activities you can present, the longer they'll stay.

This program will assist us in trying to help protect players from fraud and identity thieves. Professional athletes have always been prime targets of people who look to damage the lives of players by taking their identities and financially destroying them. This partnership will educate our membership on the importance of reviewing your credit report and monitoring your financial records on a regularly basis.

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Senate was great this year, we had constant membership to almost full capacity through the whole year. Compared to last year, the attendance improvements were great.

So if you're in another state, what you do is surrender your AAA membership card in lieu of payment. This doesn't jeopardize service; if you get a flat later, they can look up your membership number.

Since obtaining our community charter in 1996 we have still found that most people mistakenly believe they cannot join our Credit Union because they are not in, or associated in some way to the military or March Air Reserve Base. We, in good faith and as a corporate conscious citizen, have decided to fine tune our name to better suit our vision and the field of membership we serve.

Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatization, this does not necessarily imply that the party agrees on much else.

One of the things James and I have set out to do with the chamber is a back-to-basics approach with membership recruitment and programs.

I have been trying to help out in getting charity events and corporate events and try and grow the membership in any way I can.

I believe that the deal we got is better than we could have hoped for. Our membership should be very happy with this agreement.

Given Anderson's finding and Dajka's admission, clearly Dajka has breached his conditional selection to the team and his Olympic Team Membership Agreement.

I don't think another interest group in Durham has as compelling a membership roster as the Durham Committee, or as compelling a history. So I take it seriously as a compelling endorsement. I don't have any hesitation because one of the things the committee does is, it doesn't always go with what appears to be the mainstream view.

If a nominee has been very active in either organization, it raises some red flags. If you have that membership and a record of activism, that compounds the felony,

for the support given to Croatia to open EU membership negotiations.

For tomorrow to be successful we're going to need the continued support and growth of our membership and our community. Our vision is that downtown Mount Vernon and the Central Business District will be the choice for shopping, dining, entertainment, recreation and tourism in Ohio.

If the choice was made for us, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or to remain with our sovereignty and lose membership of the Commonwealth, then I would say, then let the Commonwealth go.

He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,

We expect to get some very large numbers around the country, so our membership in that program alone could be 20 million by the end of next year, depending on how quickly we're able to get them into all these states. I would be disappointed if we didn't hit 100 million members in our different programs.

There is no criminal statute that says you can't put your hand in a certain position, ... We just try to recognize gang membership at its early stages,

We're open to doing what we need to do to achieve the highest number of savings that 218 people are willing to make happen, ... Now we'll see if the membership is pleased with all the parts of that, this will undoubtedly not be exactly the same when it gets to the floor.

We've got to stand up for what we believe in as a labour movement. And that means the party's membership needs to be even bigger so it becomes a genuinely mass organisation.

With membership available to anyone living or working in the Crosby area, CRCU also hopes to add many new Crosby members to the credit union family.

We surveyed our members, and their top issues are pension and medical costs. Unfortunately, Boeing misread the membership on both those issues and wants to pile on more takeaways.

We surveyed our members, and their top issues are pension and medical costs, ... Unfortunately, Boeing misread the membership on both those issues and wants to pile on more takeaways.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

I agree with the Speaker and have concluded that my other activities do not permit me to devote the time that membership of the Lords properly requires.

Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.

I think we're early on in what could be one of the watershed moments in intercollegiate athletics. This is clearly a pivotal time in terms of the next decade or so, both in terms of conference membership and what the next generation of the postseason will look like. Not withstanding some of the Darwinian aspects to it, I do think there will be a place for everybody.

It had been my hope to offer a reduced membership fee to offset the incremental cost to the high-end users with a trail fee, but since I've now been given a new set of numbers I can no longer support that.

It is on this basis that we have requested the leadership of the TWU direct its membership to immediately return to work, and they have agreed to take such actions.

I think some people crossed Oakmont off the places-to-play list because residents got all the good tee times. But our membership knows we need outside play.

It is important to take an objective view of the advantages offered by WTO membership, as well as the possible risks involved. We do not need WTO membership at any price. There must be no compromise here.

I will say this: I've had more pro-life bills, I believe, I ruled unconstitutional - but I tried - than the entire total membership of Congress together.

I think the membership is proud of the golf course and the condition it is in and is interested in seeing how the college kids are going to fare on what we consider to be a pretty challenging course.

It is a milestone on the road toward EU membership for Albania. I congratulate Albania for this success.

I think there is a real worry in Washington that if one of the criteria (for membership on the human rights council) becomes the ratification of human rights treaties, that the U.S. will have a hard time getting on.

ISA is lucky to have valuable expertise in our membership and to be able to utilize that to benefit the rest of the profession. We were able to develop a comprehensive program that every automation professional will find valuable. We are looking forward to delivering that program in Houston.

Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.

Our goal is the western Balkans' membership of the EU. Stability in the Balkans is part of our own security.

REALTORS(R) in Denver already rely heavily on the Denver Board to provide the resources and support necessary to be successful in this profession. We intend to significantly increase the value of membership in DBR by applying exciting new technologies and business models to help our members be even more effective advocates for the consumer during the home buying and selling process.

Our negotiating team has recommended to our executive that the offer be rejected. Our executive is prepared to recommend to our membership that it be rejected.

Our labor agreement was one that the membership overwhelmingly ratified, and it turned out to be a pretty decent labor agreement. We gained wages, gained benefits - pensions were status quo - and we redesigned and restructured the workforce to be more efficient, as we have all across the industry.

Our membership is pretty aware that we're not affected until January.

Our membership has taken the responsible step in securing their future.

Our membership felt that something had to be done to level the playing field.

I think partly the problem with Yes - and I've had this discussion with people from the Hall of Fame in the past - is that it's going to be difficult to decide how many of the members of Yes you're gonna put in it and how many you're not because of the extensive membership of the band through the years.

We now have a very large membership base. When the squad started we only had four members, and that was the average per year for a while. And now we get between 15 and 30 people every year.

The AMLU membership has voted to reject minor league baseball's contract offer and voted to not accept offers to minor league spring training absent improvements in the spring training working terms and conditions.

Most of our current membership is Caucasian residents of affluent areas and we feel we're under-represented in other areas. With the growth in Jasper County it's a logical extension.

Membership is just fed up with it and wants to know whether General Motors is going to live up to this agreement or not.

Membership has not grown. Women were once the backbone of the symphony audience, but that has shifted over the last three decades,

Membership actually seems to be picking up a bit. The gym is quite busy at the moment and I've been finding a few new faces in there.

We have to take it back to the membership to vote, because it is their decision. It will be a simple majority either way -- to stay out on strike or to go back to work.

We are too interconnected to try to hold China at arm's length, ... It is time to take our policy beyond opening doors to China's membership into the international system, we need to urge China to become a responsible stakeholder in that system.

With the fire department and all the activities we have to do, with training and answering calls, there wasn't enough left to do the fund-raising. Our membership has picked up a lot in the last year and there are a lot of new members interested in doing fund-raising activities. It's a lot of work, but I think we have a good group of active folks.

We never had an agreement on the $1,300. That is what the government is offering and I told them whatever lump sum they were offering I would have to get the consensus from the membership before we could sign off on any deal,

We found, especially here in Calgary, it's so far removed from ISA headquarters, sometimes our Membership doesn't see recognition like they should. It lets them know there's a group of people locally that recognize them for being involved in industry groups.

We all need to recognize that having a tour event at a destination, whether you're trying to sell real estate or trying to combine a resort and a membership situation ... it's a great thing. It's something everybody wants to have.

We are delighted to be working with PCG to continue to develop professionalism in the IT industry, and making BCS membership more accessible to PCG's IT members enabling them to gain industry-recognised endorsement of their credentials. BCS membership supports career development at every stage, offering a wealth of IT industry information, and access to an unrivalled network of IT professionals to help secure that next job or contract.

we didn't come together as a membership and just wanted the company to come back to the table.

We are pleased that the Council on Foundations has acted to restore our membership status. We have worked closely with the Council to address its concerns, and we are confident the Council's decision was based on a belief that the measures we have taken to strengthen existing policies and implement new measures will set a high standard going forward.

The penalty for using the home circuit exception and not satisfying the requirements is immediate forfeiture of membership the following year, and for five years, he can play only 10 tournaments as a non-member.

We recommended it and our membership accepted it, but they weren't very happy with this deal," ()