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" Banks don't come with an internal switch that says, 'Enough! Let's slow down a little.' Or, 'Let's just share this wealth around for the benefit of the community now.' That's the job of government. "

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" Public opinion must be heard. "

" Securing a sustainable future will take all of us working together. "

" You cannot fuel demand, or consumption-led demand, on credit forever. "

" In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live. "

" We all eat breakfast in the morning, we all go to sleep at night, and we all want our kids to have opportunities that we didn't. "

" Poor people around the world spend more on energy because they lack the capital to buy a more expensive energy-efficient product. "

" Where workers are not free to change employers or leave the country without the permission of their employer, workers are, de facto, in forced labour. "

" We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities. "

" When governments are cowed or simply don't care to enforce fundamental human and labour rights or to ensure corporate tax is paid so that they can invest in social protection and in the health and education of their people, they cede control to corporate greed. "

" Until you separate the speculative behaviour of the financial sector from the real economy and the financing of the real economy, then we are not going to see the kind of stability or the capacity to drive genuine, income-led growth as opposed to debt-fuelled, speculative behaviour. "

" Investment in jobs at a time when millions are unemployed can only be a good thing: all the better if the jobs help us shift from a high-carbon to a low-carbon economy. "

" There is a great deal of sympathy amongst workers for the Occupy Wall Street movement. We understand their frustration. "

" You can't deny that if you have, you know, people who think it's okay to talk about women, to disregard the rights of workers, we're in trouble as an inclusive world. "

" When corporations refuse to practice due diligence by not establishing grievance mechanisms for remedy of abuses against the hidden 94% of their workforce in their global supply chains, they perpetuate a depraved model of profit-making that has driven inequality to a level now seen as a global risk in itself. "

" #MeToo shows this bias is systemic, that people get away with violence against women, get away with discrimination - whether in work or society in general - because, for too long, silence has been the answer. "

" We need to decarbonise our societies and economies. "

" If the impoverishment and community fragmentation continue, it is not a stretch to predict urban wars sparked by inequality, unemployment, and the breakdown of dialogue between leaders and citizens. "

" We need investment in green economy infrastructure; public services, training and education; and a multilateral plan to create youth job opportunities. "

" If multilateral institutions cannot bring about peace and the rule of law because of the vested interests of their members, then both national democracy and global governance will continue to be rocked by crises. "

" T-Mobile U.S.A. is one company that uses fear and intimidation to scare workers away from union representation. "

" A new model of business and economic development must ensure everybody's sons and daughters are treated as we would expect for our own. "

" For the unions, it is simple. There are no jobs on a dead planet. "

" The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics. "

" The rules of the global economy are rigged against those who have to work to earn a living and in favour of multinational corporations and the ultra-rich. "

" Disproportionate corporate power over governments is giving license to the greed that denies workers even minimum living wages. It is also seemingly a license to allow the sheer brutality of treatment of working people at the base of the supply chains. "

" When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality. "

" Large swathes of people losing faith in democracy is a dangerous thing. Conflict, desperation, totalitarianism are the products of that loss of faith. "

" If you put stimulus into an economy, you know there is a time lag in terms of depending where you invest it. If it's family transfers, it might be quick. If it's infrastructure, it might be two, three, five years. "

" Climate impacts hit working people first, and with extreme weather events, changing seasons, and rising sea levels, whole communities stand on the front lines. "