Unemployed Quotes
176 quotes by 160 authors
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We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
— Joe Baca
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
— Edward de Bono
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Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of…
— Kim Campbell
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I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
— Robert Capa
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I like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still…
— George Clooney
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I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me…
— Francesca Annis
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.
— John F. Kennedy
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This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people…
— Jeff Sessions
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When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one…
— Ronald Reagan
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When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
— Jesse Jackson
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Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
— Oscar Wilde
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I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball)
— Charles Barkley
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I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.
— Bruce Lee
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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.…
— Bob Hawke
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Investing intelligently in those of us who are marginalised means fewer people in jail, fewer homeless, fewer unemployed, fewer of us who are forlorn and…
— Simon McKeon
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer try to find a job…
— Paul Krugman
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Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job creation and spur…
— Dennis Kucinich
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During the next four years...unless drastic steps are taken by Congress, the U.S. will have nearly 8,000,000 unemployed and will stand on the brink of…
— Henry A. Wallace
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World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Who Wrote These Unemployed Quotes
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