Unemployment Quotes - Page 15

• For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Three, Planning

  A Time for Choosing (aka "The Speech"), Air date 27 October 1964, Los Angeles, CA

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• the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

  Jim Goad

  Fashion, Alternatives, Coal

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• The U.S. should take notes: Government overspending and a campaign of alienating investors and small business isn't really the best way to boost the economy or overcome massive unemployment.

  Oliver DeMille

  Government, Overcoming, Campaigns

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• I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.

  Colin Powell

  Way, Looks, Republican

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  Barbara Jordan

  America, People, Promise

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Recovery, Loss

  "Obama Lied, Your Health Insurance Died". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 13, 2013.

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• If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Men, Presidential

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• I am opposed to Obama's efforts to destroy the American economy. I'm opposed to Obama's efforts to so-called fix the health care system. I'm opposed to the way Obama wants to go about fixing unemployment.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Effort, Care, Want

  "Will Obama’s Exploitation of Newtown Families Force GOP to Cave on Gun Control?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 12, 2013.

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• An economy cannot long remain prosperous by government's taxing and spending more, now absorbing national output at a rate equal to the entire income of every American living west of the Mississippi. If this trend continues, America will gradually sink into the status of a Third World nation - more unemployment, more shackles on production, more poverty.

  John Hospers

  Government, America, Long

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• Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Average, Excellence

  Brian Tracy (2013). “Earn What You're Really Worth: Maximize Your Income at Any Time in Any Market”, p.35, Vanguard Press

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• Any degree of unemployment worries me.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Worry, Degrees

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• Some may wonder why I chose wildflowers when there are hunger and unemployment and the big bomb in the world. Well, I, for one, think we will survive, and I hope that along the way we can keep alive our experience with the flowering earth. For the bounty of nature is also one of the deep needs of man.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Earth

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• My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues

  John Hume

  Father, Issues, Ranking

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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

  Denzel Washington

  Book, Office, Remember

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• When you look what is happening in this country with the debt, the deficit, the CBO coming out and saying once again we're going to have a trillion dollar plus deficit in 2012, the fourth straight year, and unemployment may be going back up to 8.9 or maybe nine percent by the end of the year, these are serious situations that are going.

  Allen West

  Country, Years, Serious

  "West clarifies controversial 'get the hell out' message to Democrats". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 31, 2012.

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• It goes without saying that 'Buncha Losers' comedies speak to tough times. The massive unemployment of the Reagan years gave us 'Taxi,' 'Cheers' and the genre-defining 'Night Court,' a show you could never admit to watching without making people feel sorry for you.

  Rob Sheffield

  Cheer, Sorry, Night

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• My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

  John Hume

  Children, Father, Support

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• After listening to the debate on unemployment I can see a danger that Liberals lose to the Tories their claim to have new and sensible ideas and are left saying "Me too" to a Socialist conventional wisdom which is failing. The salient need of this country to produce more and much more efficiently hardly figured on the agenda.

  Jo Grimond

  Country, Ideas, Listening

  The Sunday Times, September 19, 1976.

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• Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row

  Danny Glover

  Country, People, African American

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• The current economic crisis...has numerous causes and sends a powerful message about the need for a profound revision of the model of global economic development. It's an acute symptom that is added to other more grave and already well-known ones, such as the continued imbalance between wealth and poverty, the scandal of hunger, the ecological emergency and the problem of unemployment, which has now become general. In this context a strategic re-launching of agriculture appears decisive.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Powerful, Land, Agriculture

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• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding the problems created by a private sector already in retreat. The result, of course, was an economic rout, appalling unemployment and a decade of negligible growth through the 1930s

  Kevin Rudd

  Cutting, Government, Growth

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

  Franklin Raines

  Economy, Food Stamps, Medicaid

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• In the 1930s one was aware of two great evils - mass unemployment and the threat of war.

  James Meade

  War, Two, Evil

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• My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

  James Meade

  Jobs, Two, Economics

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• Inevitably, people tell me that poor folks are lazy or unintelligent, that they are somehow deserving of their poverty. However, if you begin to look at the sociological literature on poverty, a more complex picture emerges. Poverty and unemployment are part and parcel of our economic order. Without them, capitalism would cease to function effectively, and in order to continue to function, the system itself must produce poverty and an army of underemployed or unemployed people.

  Bob Torres

  Army, Order, People

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