I have lived in Toledo, Ohio, off and on throughout my entire life, and I have plenty of friends who are union members. Sometimes we agree politically and sometimes not, but it has never kept us from being friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.
Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.
The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.
We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.
In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I've always lived on the borders.
From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.
My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.
My second wife Bonnie Owens and I worked together after we divorced for a period of maybe 20 years. And I managed to stay friends with another wife. And then there's one that I don't mess with. Everybody's got one of those.
I have very few friends. I'm an associate of everybody and friend of none.
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.