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Being the poorest congressional district in the state, we can afford inflation, and we can afford gas prices the least of any other part of the state of Oregon, and particularly just about any other part of the West Coast. I mean, this is a very blue collar, working class district and people are not getting more for their money. They're getting significantly less. – Alek Skarlatos	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I think he’s going to bring a toughness, a blue-collar mentality, just because Getty Images’s how he’s built. That’s how he’s raised. You have to be that way from Saginaw, i think it ’ll be a different toughness that they have n’t seen. And he’s going to command and require a different respect level that they have n’t really had. ... And I think that will bode well for that team. – Draymond Green	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Good jobs for blue-collar workers, those are hard to come by in this day and age. – Nick Gradisar	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is the blue-collar, working-class American that we are looking for, i want to see heart. I want to see moms elected to Congress. I want to see your blue-collar workers, your electricians, your contractors, your commercial sandblasters. – Kat Cammack	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth. – Jared Bernstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The idea here is not just to provide some sort of a near-term stimulus that keeps people busy for months or quarters, it's to fundamentally transform key sectors within our economy that disproportionately employ blue-collar and service workers... in a way that incentivizes not just more jobs, but higher-quality jobs. – Jared Bernstein	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I don’t need a single dollar. I just need every single person that’s willing to go back outside the wire every single day to wear a blue-collar and just go into work every single day and feed their families. Those are the people that I need, follow me and we will bring the whole f*ing system down. I am honorable and you can ask any Marine who served with me for 17 years. I dare you to ask them all and find out what I’m made of. We’re just getting started. – Stuart Scheller**	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Ten House Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022, a Republican majority will listen to our fellow Americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. Democrats, on the other hand, have only put forward an agenda that divides us — such as impeaching a President who is now a private citizen and destroying blue-collar energy jobs. For the sake of our country, the radical Democrat agenda must be stopped. – House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy	Found on CNN 3 years ago
At the stroke of a pen, he literally put thousands upon thousands of hardworking, blue collar union members out of work, these are people that were working on Monday—that were working on Tuesday—and then the president goes into the Oval Office and signs an executive order wiping out the Keystone Pipeline and they’re out of work. – Marco Rubio	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground. – John Prine	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Biden's roots and history and commitment with those voters, with the blue-collar voters, will help him here. As long as he's not wounded coming out of Super Tuesday, then he could potentially get his bounce back and in some ways rehabilitate his campaign, there is an opportunity for Super Tuesday here. Whether he has the money or not to do that, that's the challenge. Right now, there is no media, no ground game being waged by them. The Bernie Sanders folks are everywhere ; The Bernie folks do have a ground game. – Jeff Rusnak	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're not looking for any near-term tax cuts. We're not looking for short-run stimulus. We don't anticipate anything but a solid, strong economy, we have for a while been looking at ... additional tax relief incentives for the middle class, for blue-collar workers, small businesses and so forth - additional relief on top of the bill that passed in late 2017. – Larry Kudlow	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I grew up in a time when we had institutions in our society that really supported people. And I don't think we see that here today, i mean, I grew up in a blue collar family. My dad was an electrician. Neither of my parents went to college. I needed scholarships from my dad's union to give me the opportunity to get the education that I have received. And I had this amazing kind of American dream-type life where I worked hard and played by the rules. – John Delaney	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There's still plenty of sense that we need to address the slipping away of the American dream with blue-collar America, we didn't do it in 2016. But we're not about to concede that or to give it up. – David Price	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It’s a blue-collar immigrant city where two years ago, 80 percent of the students in our school system qualified for free or reduced lunch, our unemployment rate runs about 50 percent above the statewide average historically, and we’re a majority-minority city. – Mayor William Carpenter	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The chink in the armor [ for Republicans ], such as it is, there is a conflict between these [ blue-collar and rural ] voters' views of the rich and powerful in general and their views of entitlement programs and the way Republicans really do approach policy, if [ Democrats ] can convince more people that it's a really top priority to help you and your community, they would look the other way on some of their cultural conservative views. But until and unless you can make that case in a way that is convincing to a lot of these people, I don't think they are going to change. – Ruy Teixeira	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Like a blue collar job, it’s something that you learn over time, you start with it. But then you get better at your craft as you go along. Because really this field is constantly changing. You’ve always got something new to learn. – Scott Blanck	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Work-life balance, job variety and the level of autonomy are other significant drivers, there is a clear distinction in happiness between white and blue collar jobs with managers or professionals evaluating the quality of their lives at a much higher level than those in manual labor jobs even controlling for any possible confounding factors. – De Neve	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I’m really just a normal guy, I’ve always considered myself a blue collar worker, i’m just like the rest of the guys. I’m just a guy with a talent, that’s all. – Anthony Varvaro	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I think blue-collar America voted for Donald Trump more on Democratic issues than on Republican issues. – Chuck Schumer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It will be interesting to see if Clinton can hold off Trump in the Rust Belt by going back to the blue-collar vote. If she can, it will be extremely difficult for Donald Trump to find a path to victory. – Caleb Burns	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In China, you have to think different, we need to utilize the blue-collar workforce to interact with the robot, and that development work has to be done in China. – Stefan Lampa	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
This is really about how the Democratic Party is choosing to be more about the extreme environmental agenda of wealthy liberals than it is about blue-collar voters. – The Steyer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
If you were to design the perfect Trump location, the Lehigh Valley was that 25 years ago, it is a different place now. Some of the blue collar appeal that Trump may be having in other areas of the country or the state may have less of a target here. – Chris Borick	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

Being the poorest congressional district in the state, we can afford inflation, and we can afford gas prices the least of any other part of the state of Oregon, and particularly just about any other part of the West Coast. I mean, this is a very blue collar, working class district and people are not getting more for their money. They're getting significantly less.

– Alek Skarlatos

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I think he’s going to bring a toughness, a blue-collar mentality, just because Getty Images’s how he’s built. That’s how he’s raised. You have to be that way from Saginaw, i think it ’ll be a different toughness that they have n’t seen. And he’s going to command and require a different respect level that they have n’t really had. ... And I think that will bode well for that team.

– Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Good jobs for blue-collar workers, those are hard to come by in this day and age.

– Nick Gradisar

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is the blue-collar, working-class American that we are looking for, i want to see heart. I want to see moms elected to Congress. I want to see your blue-collar workers, your electricians, your contractors, your commercial sandblasters.

– Kat Cammack

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The President has long recognized that blue-collar workers, non-college-educated workers, workers in traditionally lower-paid sectors, such as laborers in manufacturing or providers of care to kids and older persons, in many ways those workers have for too long been forgotten by even Democrat policy makers, who basically told them,' Get a college education and you'll be fine,' which is not a viable option for a lot of people and seems pretty dismissive of their experience. I think The President's always bridled at an economics that leaves behind two-thirds of the workforce [ without college degrees ] and especially given that it's the two-thirds of the workforce that's been least pulled along by economic growth.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The idea here is not just to provide some sort of a near-term stimulus that keeps people busy for months or quarters, it's to fundamentally transform key sectors within our economy that disproportionately employ blue-collar and service workers... in a way that incentivizes not just more jobs, but higher-quality jobs.

– Jared Bernstein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I don’t need a single dollar. I just need every single person that’s willing to go back outside the wire every single day to wear a blue-collar and just go into work every single day and feed their families. Those are the people that I need, follow me and we will bring the whole f***ing system down. I am honorable and you can ask any Marine who served with me for 17 years. I dare you to ask them all and find out what I’m made of. We’re just getting started.

– Stuart Scheller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, President Trump committed to helping elect Ten House Republicans in the House and Senate in 2022, a Republican majority will listen to our fellow Americans and solve the challenges facing our nation. Democrats, on the other hand, have only put forward an agenda that divides us — such as impeaching a President who is now a private citizen and destroying blue-collar energy jobs. For the sake of our country, the radical Democrat agenda must be stopped.

– House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At the stroke of a pen, he literally put thousands upon thousands of hardworking, blue collar union members out of work, these are people that were working on Monday—that were working on Tuesday—and then the president goes into the Oval Office and signs an executive order wiping out the Keystone Pipeline and they’re out of work.

– Marco Rubio

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I thought I was grounded. I thought from my kinda blue-collar outlook on life that I would call myself a grounded person. I was not. I was like a balloon flying around in the air. And as soon as our first child was born, boom - my feet came right down to the ground.

– John Prine

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Biden's roots and history and commitment with those voters, with the blue-collar voters, will help him here. As long as he's not wounded coming out of Super Tuesday, then he could potentially get his bounce back and in some ways rehabilitate his campaign, there is an opportunity for Super Tuesday here. Whether he has the money or not to do that, that's the challenge. Right now, there is no media, no ground game being waged by them. The Bernie Sanders folks are everywhere ; The Bernie folks do have a ground game.

– Jeff Rusnak

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're not looking for any near-term tax cuts. We're not looking for short-run stimulus. We don't anticipate anything but a solid, strong economy, we have for a while been looking at ... additional tax relief incentives for the middle class, for blue-collar workers, small businesses and so forth - additional relief on top of the bill that passed in late 2017.

– Larry Kudlow

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I grew up in a time when we had institutions in our society that really supported people. And I don't think we see that here today, i mean, I grew up in a blue collar family. My dad was an electrician. Neither of my parents went to college. I needed scholarships from my dad's union to give me the opportunity to get the education that I have received. And I had this amazing kind of American dream-type life where I worked hard and played by the rules.

– John Delaney

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There's still plenty of sense that we need to address the slipping away of the American dream with blue-collar America, we didn't do it in 2016. But we're not about to concede that or to give it up.

– David Price

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s a blue-collar immigrant city where two years ago, 80 percent of the students in our school system qualified for free or reduced lunch, our unemployment rate runs about 50 percent above the statewide average historically, and we’re a majority-minority city.

– Mayor William Carpenter

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The chink in the armor [ for Republicans ], such as it is, there is a conflict between these [ blue-collar and rural ] voters' views of the rich and powerful in general and their views of entitlement programs and the way Republicans really do approach policy, if [ Democrats ] can convince more people that it's a really top priority to help you and your community, they would look the other way on some of their cultural conservative views. But until and unless you can make that case in a way that is convincing to a lot of these people, I don't think they are going to change.

– Ruy Teixeira

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Like a blue collar job, it’s something that you learn over time, you start with it. But then you get better at your craft as you go along. Because really this field is constantly changing. You’ve always got something new to learn.

– Scott Blanck

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Work-life balance, job variety and the level of autonomy are other significant drivers, there is a clear distinction in happiness between white and blue collar jobs with managers or professionals evaluating the quality of their lives at a much higher level than those in manual labor jobs even controlling for any possible confounding factors.

– De Neve

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I’m really just a normal guy, I’ve always considered myself a blue collar worker, i’m just like the rest of the guys. I’m just a guy with a talent, that’s all.

– Anthony Varvaro

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think blue-collar America voted for Donald Trump more on Democratic issues than on Republican issues.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It will be interesting to see if Clinton can hold off Trump in the Rust Belt by going back to the blue-collar vote. If she can, it will be extremely difficult for Donald Trump to find a path to victory.

– Caleb Burns

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In China, you have to think different, we need to utilize the blue-collar workforce to interact with the robot, and that development work has to be done in China.

– Stefan Lampa

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is really about how the Democratic Party is choosing to be more about the extreme environmental agenda of wealthy liberals than it is about blue-collar voters.

– The Steyer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

If you were to design the perfect Trump location, the Lehigh Valley was that 25 years ago, it is a different place now. Some of the blue collar appeal that Trump may be having in other areas of the country or the state may have less of a target here.

– Chris Borick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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