Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too.

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.