Unemployment Quotes

“Unemployment is a side effect of the collapse of aggregate demand.”

“The only numbers I'm interested in are the numbers of people who are going to be put on the dole.”

“If we're not careful, we're going to get an entire generation of people that thinks that the normal state of affairs is to have a 10% unemployment rate.”

“The unemployed are not a strange race. They are like us.”

“I'm desperate, Dan.”

“I don't think there's any actor who has not been unemployed.”

“Unemployment is a side effect of the fact that the economy is always changing.”

“The real minimum wage is zero.”

“There is now a family of second-class citizens in Ireland. It is the family of the unemployed.”

“We've got a lot of people that are unemployed, and we've got a lot of people that are underemployed.”

“We want to get rid of the Jarrow that now is, the Jarrow of idle shipyards and empty shops.”

“You know, you have a lot of people that are just looking for a job. It's not a lot of fun to be unemployed.”

“Le chômage est notre premier ennemi.”

“The business of minimizing unemployment is not a private affair. It is a public one.”

“Unemployment insurance is a front-line defense, for the individual and for the community, against the hazards of unemployment.”

“The source of the mass unemployment that exists in the world today is government intervention in the economic system.”

“I'm for a dog leash law. We have too many kennel-fed dogs running around who have never had to turn a wheel to get a meal.”

“Gissa job.”

“I grew up in the 1930s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work, and he kept looking 'til he found it.”

“No one can say that the jobless men of Jarrow have not tried to help themselves.”