Unemployment Quotes · Page 9

In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

— James Meade

With President Trump, we've seen the lowest ever African-American and Hispanic unemployment.

— Steve Hilton

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

— Newt Gingrich

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than…

— Nick Offerman

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

— Pete Sessions

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

— Alexis Tsipras

You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer…

— Austan Goolsbee

“When a man's bank balance becomes too small, his woman flees. For a man to do the same, his woman's body —…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are a lot of people who are moving from unemployment to disability rolls, and there are a lot of people who…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment…

— Ric Keller

The music scene in the '70s was like the United Kingdom in the '70s - we had a lot of unemployment, we…

— Annie Lennox

“Many people that have been through the unemployment system realize that the corporate government unemployment statistics only report the short term unemployed…

— Steven Magee

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country…

— Mariano Rajoy

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for…

— Anonymous

Obama has had two raging successes in his term: He has slashed unemployment by persuading millions to give up hope and leave…

— Dick Morris

I am saying the same to Muslims in the global South, telling them: "Just ignore what is done." However, in the Southern…

— Tariq Ramadan

How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years,…

— Jeff Sessions

In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country, but across the Middle East. Is Israel going…

— Abdallah II

“I have noticed that most people don’t use more than a pea size equivalent of their brain. They can’t process more than…

— Robin Sacredfire

We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting…

— James Callaghan

In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where…

— Jimmy Carter

Though the poorest Americans voted for Hillary Clinton, many relatively wealthy people voted for Trump and generally it's a mistake to think…

— Anne Applebaum

We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for…

— Wendell Berry

Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle.

— Ludwig von Mises

As the MP for an area like Tottenham you quickly learn that the factors leading to unemployment are as numerous as they…

— David Lammy

Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.

— Betty Williams

With unemployment benefits, you don't get health care. You don't build your pension up. You don't build all of those programs that…

— Marty Walsh

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

— Narendra Modi

Every Labour government has left office with higher unemployment than when it entered.

— Esther McVey

Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

— Alan Nunnelee

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

— Scott Walker

Musicians know all about unemployment. You're unemployed a lot, and I think there's a great deal of empathy between musicians and people…

— Billy Joel

When we say Bharat Vijay Rally, we intend to focus on making India emerge victorious over price rise, corruption, unemployment and mis-governance.

— Narendra Modi

The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

— Hans Kung

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

— Margaret Sanger

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut…

— Langston Hughes

A serious dose of unemployment and a spate of bank failures can make the unelectable electable quite quickly.

— Peter Hitchens

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

— Brian Sandoval