Quotes of Unemployment - somelinesforyou

“ Sixty-three years ago the unemployment figure was 29 percent. Last November it was 28 percent. A rather sad end to one's life. ”

- Harold Macmillan

“ Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ”

- Orson Scott Card

“ You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ 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

“ 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

“ We're a few good breaths away from being back at a lower unemployment rate. ”

- Jeff Taylor

“ When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results. ”

- Calvin Coolidge

“ We need to reform our job training programs, especially our unemployment system, and transform it into a reemployment system. ”

- Bill Clinton

“ 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

“ Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment. ”

- Jimmy Carter

“ Working in the theater has a lot in common with unemployment. ”

- Arthur Gingold

“ An "unemployed" existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ”

- Jose Ortega y Gasset

“ 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

“ Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ”

- Christian Nevell Bovee

“ Mind unemployed is mind un-enjoyed. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ”

- Karl Marx

“ 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

“ 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

“ When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ 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

“ 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

“ The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right. ”

- Robert Farrar Capon

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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.

“ 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
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