Unemployment Quotes · Page 6

In 2012 President Obama didn't go anywhere near African-American communities. Why? Because unemployment was so high there, he didn't want to address it.

— Rudy Giuliani

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

— Ellen Wilkinson

China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.

— Zhou Enlai

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

— Luke Ford

“Let your strength from the past provide proof of your abilities to . . . conquer the difficulties of the present.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

“Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If a prostitute gets fat and ugly and can no longer work, would she get unemployment?

— Tyaz2528

in modern society, fear of unemployment remains the darkest of the shadows thrown by the past. In an industrial order, a man…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation…

— Fred Upton

Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen…

— Katarina Witt

Not graduating high school on time leads to fewer chances of attending college and obtaining good paying jobs, and creates instead higher…

— Al Sharpton

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions…

— Steve Hanke

Think how weird profit margins are: We've got high unemployment and financial crises - and world record profit margins. People think the…

— Jeremy Grantham

I had no idea I was hot. I was just like, "Oh, this is normal. You make two movies a year. This…

— David Krumholtz

Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the…

— Dale T. Mortensen

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen…

— Amr Moussa

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and…

— Tim Scott

Full employment does not mean literally no unemployment; that is to say, it does not mean that every man and woman in…

— William Beveridge

“-the bank recently introduced a new system that automated many tasks in my role as a risk analyst and therefore my position…

— K.A. Tucker

What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what…

— Thabo Mbeki

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in…

— John Cheever

In the U.S., you couldn't have job creation with interest rates of 30 or 40 percent. They had a philosophy that said…

— Joseph Stiglitz

In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression…

— J. Stalin

A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent…

— Michelle Malkin

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable…

— William Vickrey

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

— Polly Toynbee

Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.

— Ryan Holmes

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

— Arthur C. Clarke

We want to give unemployment allowance and it is just a question of time and fund availability.

— Amarinder Singh

Once the true relationship between inflation and unemployment is understood, with luck and skill, a free lunch is possible.

— Paul Ormerod

Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change.

— Barack Obama

“If heaven really exists: then heaven is the job, hell is unemployment, while life is merely an interview.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

— Laurence J. Peter

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

— Chuck Schumer

“If he is a worker, the ubiquitous fact of unemployment teaches him that the supply of labour is always greater than the…

— Brealey & Myers

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater,…

— John Cornyn

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

— Viola Davis

Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created…

— Ron Paul

Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.

— Bernard Baruch

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

— Janet Yellen