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  • Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. -- Orson Scott Card
  • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. -- Mason Cooley
  • Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. -- Ronald Reagan
  • Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed. -- Edward Heath
  • Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program -- Nancy Pelosi
  • When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause. -- William Beveridge
  • The goal of the future is full unemployment -- Arthur C. Clarke
  • The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. -- Milton Friedman
  • Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. -- William Barrett
  • Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. -- Jane Addams
  • This would, at a stroke, reducetherise in prices, increase productivity, and reduce unemployment. -- William Randolph Hearst
  • In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs. -- George W. Bush
  • Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. -- Jimmy Carter
  • The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job. -- Slappy White
  • Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth. -- John Mellencamp
  • In Greece, the unemployment rate has risen to 22%. The solution to the problem was to raise taxes on the rich, according to the Greek president Barack Obama-opolis. -- Jay Leno
  • No country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level. -- Michele Bachmann
  • The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs. -- Jay Leno
  • 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
  • A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization. -- William Booth
  • 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
  • Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government. -- Joan Robinson
  • The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. -- Robert Farrar Capon
  • Unemployment doles can have no other effect than the perpetuation of unemployment. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability. -- Polly Toynbee
  • Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal. -- Ellen Wilkinson
  • Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs. -- Brian Sandoval
  • Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change. -- Barack Obama
  • Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. -- Bill Gates
  • Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%. -- Scott Walker
  • Unemployment is down, confidence is up, DOW 5,000 above Bush - or as Republicans put it, let's talk about gay people and abortion! -- Bill Maher
  • There must be 15 shows about people's jobs: 'Ice Road Trucker,' 'Axe Men,' 'Dirty Jobs.' Unemployment is so high, we're watching people work. -- Dov Davidoff
  • Prices are going up. Unemployment continues to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system. -- Ron Paul
  • President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations. -- Timothy Griffin
  • Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system. -- Ron Paul
  • Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas. -- Michael Bloomberg
  • 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
  • As [House] speaker, I came back, working with President Bill Clinton. We passed a very Reagan-like program: less regulation, lower taxes. Unemployment dropped to 4.2 percent. We created 11 million jobs. -- Newt Gingrich
  • Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. -- Edmund Phelps
  • We have weapons of mass destruction we have to address here at home. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction. -- Dennis Kucinich
  • By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm. -- Gore Vidal
  • Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage. -- Dale T. Mortensen
  • At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art. -- Joe Average
  • Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from the hearth. We mean to banish the workhouse from the horizon of every workman in the land. -- David Lloyd George
  • I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems. -- Angela Merkel
  • Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better? -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Racism is worse than ever. Violence is worse than ever. The economy's worse than ever. Unemployment's worse than ever. And it's Democrats that have been running the show, with the first African-American president at the top of the heap, and it didn't get any better? -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
  • Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems. -- Kailash Satyarthi
  • Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits. -- Alan Nunnelee
  • The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. -- Barry Eichengreen
  • It's a European Union of economic failure, of mass unemployment and of low growth. -- Nigel Farage
  • As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge. -- Julian Bond
  • 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
  • Our nation stands at the crossroads of liberty. Crushing national debt, rampant illegal immigration, insane business regulations and staggering national unemployment are pushing our nation into unchartered territory. -- James Lankford
  • Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment. -- Indra Nooyi
  • Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages. -- Austan Goolsbee
  • Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message. -- Ted Cruz
  • Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
  • Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. -- Alexis Herman
  • The harsh reality is that if you are middle-aged, write computer code for a living, and earn a six-figure salary, you're headed for the unemployment lines. Your market value declines as you age, and it becomes harder and harder to get a job. -- Vivek Wadhwa
  • America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. -- Bill Johnson
  • If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing. -- Paul Farmer
  • Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. -- Alex Tabarrok
  • We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. -- Mark Pocan
  • Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. -- Katarina Witt
  • I could have easily been a statistic. Growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., it was easy - a little too easy - to get into trouble. Surrounded by poor schools, lack of resources, high unemployment rates, poverty, gangs and more, I watched as many of my peers fell victim to a vicious cycle of diminished opportunities and imprisonment. -- Al Sharpton
  • I did a show called 'Freaks and Geeks' when I was very young. And I had the naivete and arrogance of youth. You know, I really assumed that when the show got cancelled, like, oh, it doesn't matter, you just keep rolling, you know. I'm about to be the biggest star of the world. And then I was met with five years of unemployment. -- Jason Segel
  • You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available. -- Sharron Angle
  • We Conservatives hate unemployment. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • Any degree of unemployment worries me. -- Gerhard Schroder
  • There is no unemployment in eco-systems -- Gunter Pauli
  • Jazz is the music of unemployment. -- Frank Zappa
  • The final solution for unemployment is work. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment. -- Glynis Johns
  • Famine and unemployment are the raw material for dictatorships. -- Alexis Tsipras
  • The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment -- Robert Capa
  • Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment. -- Hans F. Sennholz
  • I learned that unemployment can be the great educator. -- David Caruso
  • You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment. -- Michael Foot
  • What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment. -- Abdallah II
  • What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment. -- Abdallah II
  • No president has ever been elected with unemployment over 8 percent. -- Bob McDonnell
  • Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment? -- Doug Stanhope
  • It is well known that unemployment benefits raise unemployment durations. -- Raj Chetty
  • I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. -- Martha Quinn
  • Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving. -- Jonathan Davis
  • The only way to eliminate unemployment is to eliminate unemployment benefits. -- Philip Larkin
  • Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment -- David Lloyd George
  • Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems. -- Kailash Satyarthi
  • I don't believe in hell. I believe in unemployment, but not hell. -- Dustin Hoffman
  • I think no one has ever been re-elected with unemployment over 7.6 percent. -- Lindsey Graham
  • There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
  • The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid. -- Franklin Raines
  • I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
  • People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them. -- Bruce Bartlett
  • Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create. -- Laurence J. Peter
  • There will not be an automatic increase in interest rate when unemployment hits 6.5%. -- Ben Bernanke
  • When you lose your job, the unemployment rate isn't four percent, it's 100 percent. -- Thomas Friedman
  • The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites. -- William Weld
  • The employment rates are in very bad shape. We vastly underestimate the unemployment -- Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency. -- Bob Hope
  • The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different. -- Rush Limbaugh
  • Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens. -- Janet Yellen
  • You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts. -- Jesse Jackson
  • It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable. -- Ben Bernanke
  • Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved. -- Margaret Thatcher
  • China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders. -- Zhou Enlai
  • We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment. -- Narendra Modi
  • Continuing to pay people unemployment compensation is a disincentive for them to seek new work. -- Jon Kyl
  • The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow. -- George H. W. Bush
  • Enterprise Washington is economic development in areas of high unemployment around the state of Washington. -- Mike Lowry
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