Unemployed Quotes

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.
John F. Kennedy

Today, Tomorrow, Living

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.
Ronald Reagan

Food, Medical, Long

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Angela Davis

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

Depression, Lazy, Whites

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 on inside.
Francesca Annis

Great, Waiting, Job

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.
Fareed Zakaria

Money, Government, School

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.
Craig Bruce

Work, Money, Why

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life, Death, Worse

I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach.
Bobby Knight

Teacher, Place, Looking

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.
Edward de Bono

Thinking, Five, Hours

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.
Rick Perry

Work, Job, Find

Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed stimulus plans and other misguided economic theories have given record debt and left us with far too many unemployed.
Rick Perry

Children, Far, Desire

Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed.
Joseph Hume

Alone, Giving, May

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?
John McEnroe

Problems, Moron, Dork

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.
Denzel Washington

Rule, Exception

I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha.
Marlee Matlin

Barack Obama may have found the answer to his biggest rhetorical challenge: When millions of voters are unemployed or underemployed, how does a president simultaneously sound realistic and optimistic?
Ron Fournier

May, Challenge, President

Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water.
Peter Singer

Education, Experience, Children

New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.
Rachel McAdams

Best, Full, York

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Good, Remember, Matter

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
Robert Capa

Life, Hope, War

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
Dick Wolf

Reality, Vote, Rather

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 technological progress.
Kim Campbell

Today, Progress, High

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
Nathan Fillion

Cool, After, Deal

I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition.
Rainn Wilson

Remember, Voice, Pay

In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
David Miliband

Education, Work, Young

And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again.
David Steinberg

Emotional, Law, Become

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
Prince Philip

Saying, Everybody, Leisure

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
Joe Baca

Job, America, Cannot

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

Politics, Time, Fault

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