Unemployment Quotes

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.
Ronald Reagan

Vacation, Insurance

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.
Mitt Romney

Said, Around, Here

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman

Great, Government, Depression

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.
Barack Obama

Learned, Big, High

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.
Ron Paul

Financial, System, Necessary

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.
Mitt Romney

Work, Home, Today

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.
Mitt Romney

Life, Good, Government

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Great, Find

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Men, Find

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
Colin Powell

Moving, May, Down

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Results, Thrown

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.
Rush Limbaugh

Different, Deal, Obama

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

Job, Training, Fact

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

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

Life, Dreams, Live

Qualified software engineers, managers, marketers and salespeople in Silicon Valley can rack up dozens of high-paying, high-upside job offers any time they want, while national unemployment and underemployment is sky high.
Marc Andreessen

Time, Job, While

Any degree of unemployment worries me.
Gerhard Schroder

Degree, Worries

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.
Jonathan Davis

We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?
Thomas Frank

Leadership, Government, Down

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.
Michael Bloomberg

Today, America, Cannot

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.
Julian Bond

Legal, Slavery, Period

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
Jesse Jackson

Home, Whole, Lives

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Denzel Washington

Remember, Books, Office

What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
King Abdullah II

Night, Poverty, Keeps

We blacks were the first people embracing Obama, long before the people at expensive fundraisers were supporting him. We gave him his first love, 96 percent of blacks voted for him in 2008. Yet today we are the number one in unemployment, with 16 percent of American blacks out of work.
Jesse Jackson

Love, Work, Today

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.
Jonathan Sacks

Government, Future, Perfect

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
John Sununu

Forget, Real, America

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.
John Sununu

Politics, Simple, Blame

It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth.
Nigel Farage

Failure, Growth, Union

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.
Kim Campbell

Design, Human, Problem

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