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  • I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off. -- Al Gore
  • I'm in show business. I'm not like a poor factory worker who'd been laid off. -- Woody Allen
  • Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off. -- Lorenzo Snow
  • Getting laid off was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. But it led to the best results. -- Tom Smallwood
  • When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something. -- Daymond John
  • Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own. -- Hank Johnson
  • I was teaching airplane mechanics when I realized it was more fun to make them laugh. I was laid off one more time and I never looked back, although it was nice to have a steady paycheck and benefits. -- Alonzo Bodden
  • Being a conservative union member is almost like being an actor in Hollywood: You don't dare say it, or you might be injured on the job, or you might be laid off, or your family might have something happen to them. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Today Carly Fiorina announced that she is running for president. Someone else bought 'CarlyFiorina.org' and posted 30,000 sad emoticons to represent all the people she laid off at Hewlett-Packard. I haven't seen that many sad, blank faces in one place since the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight. -- Jimmy Fallon
  • Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. -- Ben Stein
  • Everyone gets laid off and everyone in Hollywood gets unemployment for six months while they're looking for a new job. So I would just do stand-up for six months and think I was really making it, and when my unemployment ran out, I had to get another job immediately. -- Anthony Jeselnik
  • In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended. -- Bernie Sanders
  • We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they can get the foreign workers more cheaply. It has become a major means of circumventing the costs of paying skilled American workers or the costs of training them. -- Ronald Reagan
  • At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department. -- Ann Coulter
  • My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion. And obviously, yeah, it's hard right now. But maybe there's a chance that if you get laid off, maybe that's your saving grace, your chance to restart. -- Tony Hawk
  • When I was leaving Yemen to come to America, things were tough. My dad had just been laid off, and it was a challenge. When I lived in Yemen, I thought America was a perfect place. Everything was bigger and better. I dreamed big. The American dream, you know? You have to work hard for your dream to come true. -- Barkhad Abdi
  • I am the Terrell off the field who is laid back and this is me. -- Terrell Owens
  • My mom was a model, and her laid-back but put-together sensibility really rubbed off on me. -- Tony Parker
  • It is a general idea, that when taxes are once laid on, they are never taken off. -- Thomas Paine
  • Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. -- Thomas Hood
  • I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off. -- Mike Huckabee
  • It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity. -- Fraser Nelson
  • The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge? -- Jim Elliot
  • Extending federal unemployment insurance is vital for millions of Americans laid off through no fault of their own, and it serves as an important economic stimulus. -- Sander Levin
  • Joe Smith and Brigham Young laid out Independence, but very soon thereafter enough citizens of the county collected to drive them off, after several stubborn fights. -- Cole Younger
  • I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son! -- Jerry Reed
  • It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores. -- Christina Baker Kline
  • I believe that whether you love your job or hate your job, get laid off or are just in-between jobs, you deserve health care that can never be taken away. -- Ron Wyden
  • First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis. -- Richard M. Daley
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