Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

It is not acceptable that European Union countries are divided into those who give and those who take.

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws.

Britain's unions were broken and battered by Thatcherism and never recovered.

In rugby union, I was out wide kicking stones with the pretty boys.

Chefs don't have a union. We don't have a Screen Actor's Guild.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

A Westlife reunion is definitely going to happen - but I have no idea when.

We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The European Union is not only a great idea, but it's also an idea we must keep working on.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members.

The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.