Quotes and Sayings About Unemployment
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
-- Abdallah II -
We don't have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation - these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.
-- Akbar Hashemi RafsanjaniSource : "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.
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It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
-- Angela Merkel -
You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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The goal of the future is full unemployment
-- Arthur C. ClarkeSource : "Los Angeles Free Press" Interview, (pp. p. 42-43, 47), April 25, 1969.
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The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
The northern part of Sweden is considered more isolated, not so sociable, not so educated, more unemployment, very working-class, and people drink more than rest of Sweden; that's the kind of area I'm from.
-- Asa Larsson -
For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
-- Barry EichengreenSource : "US unemployment: some lessons in sharing from the Great Depression" by Barry Eichengreen, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.
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The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
-- Barry Eichengreen -
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Increased wages, higher pensions, more unemployment insurance, all are of no avail if the purchasing power of money falls faster.
-- Bernard Baruch -
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
-- Betty Williams -
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No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent.
-- Bob McDonnell -
I think there is something like 90% unemployment in the Screen Actors Guild, so we are the exception.
-- Brent Spiner -
Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.
-- Brian Sandoval -
Nevada was hit hardest by the recession - highest unemployment, highest foreclosure rate, highest bankruptcy rate.
-- Brian SandovalSource : "Brian Sandoval RNC speech". www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
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We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
-- Bruce BabbittSource : Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. January 5, 2001.
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When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
The final solution for unemployment is work.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
-- Carl Hiaasen -
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With QE3, we are essentially being bought out with our own money...and unemployment is being used to facilitate this process in a very clever manner. Monetary inflation is currently being offset by labor deflation. The way you avoid collapse is by printing money and stealing assets. The way you avoid inflation is with labor deflation.
-- Catherine Austin Fitts -
Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.
-- Charles M. Schwab -
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment
-- Claudia Black -
Have you noticed that all the news, statistics, strategies about unemployment are provided by those who are employed? As soon as you are unemployed you cease to exist ...
-- Dale Spender -
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I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.
-- David Caruso -
Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment
-- David Lloyd George -
I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.
-- Eamon de Valera -
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Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
-- Edward Heath -
There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf