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What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. -- Angela Davis
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed. -- Edward Heath
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life. -- Robert Capa
Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork? -- John McEnroe
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. -- Prince Philip
When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. -- Jesse Jackson
The mind that is not baffled, is unemployed -- Wendell Berry
I'm gonna be unemployed when people read this. Ha. -- Marlee Matlin
If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. -- Zig Ziglar
I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. -- Bruce Lee
The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth. -- Daniel Tosh
Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job. -- Elizabeth Warren
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship. -- Billy Graham
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. -- Prince Philip
In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, don't feel particularly bad for many of these people. They don't feel bad about it themselves, as long as they're receiving generous social assistance and unemployment insurance. -- Stephen Harper
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them. -- Milton Friedman
In Hollywood, we have some of the richest unemployed people in the world. They have sun tans. Some of them have chauffeurs in Rolls-Royces waiting outside. They have their golf clubs ready in the car. There is no law that says you cannot play golf while being unemployed. -- Allan Sherman
I think of the difficulties which, in various countries, today afflicts the world of work and business; I think of how many, and not just young people, are unemployed, many times due to a purely economic conception of society, which seeks selfish profit, beyond the parameters of social justice. -- Pope Francis
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. The small landowners are the most precious part of a state -- Thomas Jefferson
Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite. -- Jason Read
Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat. -- Lucille Kallen
An unemployed court jester is nobody's fool. -- Kevin Hart
Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent. -- Edward de Bono
Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. -- Zig Ziglar
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. -- Joe Baca
Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work. -- Emanuel Cleaver
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
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside. -- Francesca Annis
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed. -- Andy Grove
When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table. -- Janet Yellen
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed. -- John F. Kennedy
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
Childhood was terrifying for me. A kid has no control. You're three feet tall, flat broke, unemployed, and illiterate. Terror snaps you awake. You pay keen attention. People can just pick you up and move you and put you down. -- Mary Karr
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed. -- Ronald Reagan
Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed. -- Craig Bruce
Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits. -- Henry Giroux
Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water. -- Peter Singer
The unemployed in Greece can get a voucher and choose a training program somewhere in Europe to be retrained during this crisis and when this crisis is over, we make sure that that person hasn't fallen off the cliff and can come back into the labor market with new skills to find a job. -- George Papandreou
And I think it's a prudent, responsible way, given the scale of the emergency, the scale of the damage still facing America, that we finance these additional support for the unemployed as well as the support for small business. We think there's a good case for doing it now. We want to do it in an overall fiscally responsible way. -- Timothy Geithner
My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change. -- Dennis Crowley
A jester unemployed is nobodys fool. -- Danny Kaye
An unemployed jester is nobody's fool. -- Danny Kaye
God is not dead-He is merely unemployed... -- Walt Kelly
Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too. -- Charles Baxter
My family was mostly unemployed working class. -- Noam Chomsky
Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed. -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed -- Mario Diaz-Balart
Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed. -- Chuck Knox
Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are: -- Ernie J Zelinski
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. -- John F. Kennedy
A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed. -- David Lloyd George
I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
We may at times be unemployed, but no one ever becomes uncalled. -- Os Guinness
New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet. -- Rachel McAdams
I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. -- Denzel Washington
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I'm just what America needs: another unemployed black man. (on his retirement from basketball) -- Charles Barkley
I'm an unemployed teacher right now and I'm looking for a place to teach. -- Bobby Knight
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed! -- Marine Le Pen
Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods. -- Daniel J. Rice
I was unemployed for a long time, but I couldn't adjust to the hours. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back. -- Noam Chomsky
I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment. -- Oscar Levant
not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals. -- Erma Bombeck
Let's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country. -- Donald Trump
Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed. -- Henry David Thoreau
Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. -- Tsugumi Ohba
A day unemployed is like a bagel- even when it's bad, it's still pretty good... -- CrimethInc.
If there is unemployment in America, it is because the unemployed do not want to work. -- Henry Ford
There are no unemployed, either in Russia or in Dartmoor jail, and for the same reason. -- Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us. -- Joseph Hume
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed. -- Max Barry
It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again. -- Hunter Tylo
If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice. -- Colin Hanks
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless. -- Dominique Bouhours
The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects. -- Ben Bernanke
In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor. -- Quentin Crisp
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. -- Oscar Wilde
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression. -- Jesse Jackson
To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance. -- Nina Easton
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed. -- Luke Ford
I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed ... I'm networking. I have my sight on a particular job. -- Mitt Romney
Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed. -- Romano Prodi
If the unemployed could eat plans and promises, they would be able to spend the winter on the Riviera. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
Every woman needs to think about her career above everything. And I'll say it again...Kate [Siegel] is unemployed. -- Kate Siegel
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover. -- Leonard Cohen
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. -- David Miliband
Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed. -- Vladimir Lenin
And it was a huge emotional thing to leave the law and become unemployed - to be a student again. -- David Steinberg
Assistance granted to the unemployed does not dispose of unemployment. It makes it easier for the unemployed to remain idle. -- Ludwig von Mises
Some people are unemployed because they lack the minimum required education. Others are unemployed because they lack the minimum required obedience. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles. -- Andy Kindler
Unless you are wealthy, you cannot afford to act or direct one play and remain unemployed the rest of the time. -- Cyrus Broacha
You have 30% of the world unemployed, a huge amount of work, that needs to be done just rebuilding the society alone. -- Noam Chomsky
We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented. -- Gerhard Schroder
After Psychonauts went on to be very, very popular in Europe, I got busy with my next big project: being unemployed. -- Erik Wolpaw
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses. -- Charles Bukowski
During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period. -- Ella Baker
Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while. -- Adam Brody
I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man. -- Henry Fonda
I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives. -- Rob Zerban
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp. -- Marilyn vos Savant
While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet. -- Jerry Costello
It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon. -- Noam Chomsky
An endless war against terrorism can tend to inflate the terrorists, because being at war is attractive to some angry, unemployed, disaffected youth. -- Mary Robinson
The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do. -- Alden Ehrenreich
The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed. -- Lord Byron
Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow. -- Andy Van Slyke
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. -- J. Stalin
I used to go to the gym regularly and swim an awful lot, but that was when I was unemployed and knew leisure intimately. -- Mark Gatiss
It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor. -- Joseph Stalin
I remember being unemployed and walking the East Village streets for many years, constantly checking my voice mail on pay phones, hoping for an audition. -- Rainn Wilson
You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder. -- Nora Roberts
We have 23 million people unemployed. They're America's forgotten people. It's the damndest thing that this much collateral damage is acceptable to this [Barack Obama] administration. -- Lou Dobbs
What kind of a society are we going to have if it consists of highly paid people doing high-value-added work - and masses of unemployed? -- Andy Grove
I basically sat around unemployed in Sydney for three years straight, and the two things that saved me were the rugby league and my dog. -- Ben Mendelsohn
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working. -- Margaret Thatcher
The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market. -- Robert Stempel

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