Unemployed Quotes · Page 8

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

— Jerry Costello

Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.

— Max Boot

“A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good...”

— CrimethInc

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping…

— Rainn Wilson

You wonderful girl. I’ve missed you so much.” “Well, now that we’re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time we’ll have…

— Kiersten White

We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.

— Marine Le Pen

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

— Noam Chomsky

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.

— David Miliband

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.'…

— Dick Wolf

Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you…

— Mary Karr

If you have an economic system in which there must be a lower class, there must be unemployed. There must be a…

— Howard Zinn

Perhaps well-to-do women and unemployed ghetto teenagers have something in common. Neither group has been allowed to develop the self-confidence that comes…

— Gloria Steinem

The last thing I need is for daughter to move back into my basement and become another unemployed millennial statistic. Would love…

— Kate Siegel

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down…

— Jeff Sessions

In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs…

— Allan Sherman

I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my…

— George Clooney

World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was…

— Zygmunt Bauman

... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Why can't unemployed people clean toilets, remove graffiti from vandalised war memorials, clear wasteland or derelict areas, or even decorate public buildings…

— Karl Wiggins

Writing checks to the IRS that include strings of zeros does not bother me ... Overall, we feel extraordinarily lucky to have…

— Warren Buffett

Last month, the House of Representatives passed the Veterans Opportunity to Work Act, which would provide training and assistance to unemployed veterans,…

— Joe Heck

I think that my experience as a single mom getting into relationships in an impoverished district with men that don't have options…

— Cheri Honkala

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent…

— Peter Singer

Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

— Zig Ziglar

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land…

— Nora Roberts

I own half a million dollars worth of-houses in California. That's a lot for an unemployed actor.

— Bob Crane

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

— Marine Le Pen

Whenever I write about immigration, I hear heart-wrenching stories of computer workers who are unemployed and facing severe hardship.

— Vivek Wadhwa

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

— Henry Fonda

“Since Adam and Eve were fired or cast out of heaven, we have all become unemployed from that day forward.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a…

— Elizabeth Warren

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have…

— Billy Graham

I was always about working. I like working. I don't like being unemployed. I love acting.

— Nicola Walker

I've been doing radio since I was 18, and I've been unemployed four times from radio for various reasons.

— Charlamagne tha God

On average, military spouses are significantly more educated than their civilian counterparts, but much more likely to be unemployed or underemployed.

— Brianna Keilar

I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

— Oscar Levant

If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

When you are unemployed, you tell yourself that you are not going to find a way out.

— Edouard Mendy

I definitely have had my down times and also have had my times of being very, very unemployed.

— Vincent Rodriguez III