Job Creation Quotes - Page 3

• What our economy needs is direct job creation by the government and mortgage-debt relief for stressed consumers. What it very much does not need is a transfer of billions of dollars to corporations that have no intention of hiring anyone except more lobbyists.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Government, Stressed

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• You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

  Sean Penn

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

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• I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Jobs, Self Confidence, People

  Source: www.rfa.org

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• Of course it would make far more sense to invest in education and job creation in poor communities of color, rather than spend billions of dollars caging them and monitoring them upon release.

  Michelle Alexander

  Jobs, Color, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Jobs, School, People

  Source: www.irinnews.org

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• It is a very interesting world. I'm excited. It is much more optimistic than people think, and there is going to be huge job creation from all these things, and there are going to be huge life improvements.

  Ken Moelis

  Jobs, Optimistic, Thinking

  Source: nordic.businessinsider.com

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• [The Clean Power Plan] is not the all-of-the-above energy strategy needed to boost job creation and reduce energy prices for families.

  Joe Heck

  Jobs, Energy, Strategy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We are trying to reinvigorate our stagnant energy sector, to create avenues for new wealth. Clean energy innovation, job creation and energy independence should be common ground for all Americans.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Innovation, Independence

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Training, Green

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• The demands of leadership have changed. The highest levels if leadership require mastery of a new task: job creation. Traditional leadership through politics, military force, religion, or personal values won't work in the future like it has in the past.

  Jim Clifton

  Leadership, Jobs, Military

  Jim Clifton (2013). “The Coming Jobs War”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• These new investments in cyber security and the modernization of our military will spur substantial new job creation in the private sector and help create the jobs and technologies of tomorrow. It's what we have to do. America must be the world's dominant technological powerhouse of the twenty-first century, and young Americans - including in our inner cities - should get these new jobs!

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Military, Technology

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

  Paul Krugman

  Jobs, Cutting, Creating

  "NBC's Russert Refs Debate Between Bill and Krugman". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2004.

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• If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Cutting, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I want to preserve the free and open Internet - the experience that most users and entrepreneurs have come to expect and enjoy today and that has unleashed impressive innovation, job creation, and investment.

  Julius Genachowski

  Jobs, Entrepreneur, Innovation

  "Conversation: Julius Genachowski on Net Neutrality". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2009.

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• Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation, we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Clever, Believe

  "Interview with Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 10, 2012.

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• There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, Massachusetts, Sitting

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• Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Jobs, Opportunity, Relief

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• Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.

  Haley Barbour

  Hurt, Jobs, Want

  "Barbour Responds to 2012 Chatter". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Jobs, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

  Curt Schilling

  Jobs, Dollars, Income

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "The Sean Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

  Rick Scott

  Jobs, Motivation, America

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• I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Want, Rich

  "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.

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• That's the real secret to job creation - not borrowing and spending more money in Washington.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Real, Secret

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Communication, Thinking

  "NewsBusters Interview: Karl Rove Slams Lefty Blogosphere, Talks Media, Praises iPhone". Interview with Matthew Sheffield, www.newsbusters.org. March 21, 2008.

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