“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”
- Orson Scott Card- Copy
- 2K
“ You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.2K
“ I went from starring in a Paramount movie to unemployment for two years. Literally, I couldn't get a job for almost two years. ”
- David Caruso- Copy
- 2.6K
“ My brother-in-law... I wish he would learn a trade, so we'd know what kind of work he was out of. ”
- Henny Youngman- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We're a few good breaths away from being back at a lower unemployment rate. ”
- Jeff Taylor- Copy
- 2K
“ When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. ”
- Calvin Coolidge- Copy
- 3.2K
“ We need to reform our job training programs, especially our unemployment system, and transform it into a reemployment system. ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
- 3.4K
“ They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. ”
- Jimmy Carter- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. ”
- Arthur Gingold- Copy
- 4K
“ An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 407
“ Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.3K
“ I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing; I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being. ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 698
“ A man who has no office to go to — I don't care who he is — is a trial of which you can have no conception. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ”
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
- 698
“ To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2K
“ A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 2.8K
“ When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ”
- Jesse Jackson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ”
- John F. Kennedy- Copy
- 3.8K
“ If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school. ”
- Wayne Knight- Copy
- 519
“ The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ”
- Robert Farrar Capon- Copy
- 2.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 502
“ It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime. ”
- William J. Brennan Jr.- Copy
- 2K
“ If you look at the opportunities for economic growth within America, inner-city areas and rural areas, especially those that are heavily minority populated are a great opportunity for economic growth, because unemployment is high and the potential for consumer demand to grow is enormous… ”
- Bill Clinton- Copy
- 3.7K
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