Unemployment Quotes · Page 7

“To drive a woman away, tell her that you are unemployed. To bore her, tell her that you are single.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to…

— Andy Van Slyke

The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Because standard unemployment reports continue to exclude prisoners, we have been treated to a highly misleading picture of black unemployment.

— Michelle Alexander

I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.

— Brent Spiner

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

— Marco Rubio

I used to work at the unemployment office. I hated it, because when they fired me, I had to show up to…

— Wally Wang

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

— Kailash Satyarthi

Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder…

— John Boehner

As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment…

— Newt Gingrich

“The horror of unemployment is the final undoing of the worker. When he sees this confronting him he sells himself regardless of…

— Art Young

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost…

— Lindsey Graham

President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses…

— Anonymous

The Internet is a cauldron of anger every day, every year, election year or not, with unemployment at 10 percent or at…

— Charles Krauthammer

The ending of a job or a relationship may appear as the darkest night, but it is merely the Winter season -…

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in…

— Paul Ormerod

The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

When we reject unemployment as an economic instrument as we do and when we reject also superficial remedies, as socialists must, then…

— James Callaghan

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest…

— Sharron Angle

“And no matter how upbeat they are—no matter how ingenious and flexible—the unemployed and underemployed understand that the clock is always ticking…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“Four years of fussing over spreadsheets until my eyes hurt and kissing egotistical traders’ asses in hopes that I could count on…

— K.A. Tucker

Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with…

— Seth Klarman

It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the short run…

— Paul Krugman

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut…

— Kevin Rudd

It is the policies of the Obama Administration that has led to a stagnated economy as well as high unemployment, as well…

— Herman Cain

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

— Rachael Stirling

You know, I don't like when people talk about generous unemployment benefits because unemployment benefits are there to help people in very…

— Marty Walsh

Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.

— Guy Standing

I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're…

— Emilia Clarke

What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.

— Campbell Newman

The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a…

— Dylan Ratigan

Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy.

— Ludwig von Mises

For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.

— Ferdinand Marcos

Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that we have a choice between cutting tax and cutting unemployment, for…

— Nigel Lawson

For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the…

— Ronald Reagan

History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down.

— Austan Goolsbee

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

— Shirin Ebadi

Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

— Bob Hope

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

— Milton Friedman