Unemployment Quotes · Page 8

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they…

— Margaret Thatcher

The 'black rule' is that youth unemployment is, on average, double a country's unemployment rate.

— Alain Dehaze

The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid.

— Franklin Raines

Work did bestow dignity, status, meaning. Wasn't that why people dreaded unemployment, why some men found retirement so traumatic?

— P. D. James

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

— Wayne Knight

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

— Evo Morales

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

— Craig Kilborn

There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%.

— Ben Bernanke

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're…

— Fareed Zakaria

The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment…

— Christina Romer

If I’m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washington’s…

— Bryant Gumbel

In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about…

— Hamish Linklater

“My first bit of advice is to not personalize a job loss. The cause for the dismissal was a business calculation. This…

— John-Talmage Mathis

This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work,…

— Oliver DeMille

I had a period of unemployment for about nine months after my first big break, and it's the greatest lesson I ever…

— Natalie Dormer

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself…

— Jesse Jackson

There is no worse material poverty than one that does not allow for earning one’s bread and deprives one of the dignity…

— Pope Francis

The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades -…

— Nicholas Bloom

I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the…

— Jim Clifton

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be…

— Joseph Stalin

“The first thought of writing this book came to me two years ago after I had driven through the mining district of…

— Edwin Muir

If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base…

— Walter Block

Germany suffered most as a consequence of this Peace Treaty and the general insecurity which was bound to arise from it. The…

— Adolf Hitler

One man in one mood will attack Industrial Capitalism for its destruction of beauty; another for its incompetence; another for the vileness…

— Hilaire Belloc

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

— Kofi Annan

The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job.

— Slappy White

I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

— George H. W. Bush

Take a break from studying for finals to go protest your upcoming state of unemployment.

— Anonymous

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

— Bill Gates

The economy is better than the one President [Barack] Obama inherited, and unemployment is lower, but the unemployment rate gap remains large.

— Julianne Malveaux

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

— Jesse Jackson

The interest rate because of Mr. Raghuram Rajan has been too high, and so medium and small industries have all collapsed. This…

— Subramanian Swamy

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

— Constance Marie

Immigration has a huge cost on social programs, and it lowers salaries and drives up unemployment.

— Marine Le Pen

In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according…

— Jay Leno

Of course you've got a low unemployment rate when people have got to work two and three jobs just to make ends…

— Andrew Gillum

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?…

— Max Brooks

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

— Charles M. Schwab