Adam Smith Quotes

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

I want to be part of making sure that decent, honorable, humble, hardworking people in Pennsylvania can look their kids in the eyes. And when they put in their 40 hours, they can say to their kids, 'I got you.'

Creating paid family and medical leave will create a foundation for healthier families, healthier workplaces and the chance to have a growing and thriving population of families in Maine.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

Whether it's making sure that a person has access to a doctor when they need one, investing in excellent first class educations for our children or making sure that working people are able to provide for their families and put food on the table when they put in an honest day's work, I will continue to put people and families first.

We will remain independent for as long as our economy develops as needed. We won't be able to maintain our independence if we ruin the economy.

My approach has always been to work so that I can support my family.

My mother quit her job in advertising in order to raise us and she really allowed and encouraged us to be ourselves.

It is the responsibility of all of us to create a culture that encourages and enables fathers to spend more time with their families.

I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.

I think, in the past, you could buy a flat and live comfortably on theatre and touring theatre, but you can't do that anymore, which means that you have to have a certain amount of celebrity and profile to, therefore, get TV and film work.

Like individuals in all walks of life, footballers want stability and we have families to look after.

I completely put all my time and effort into my kids and once I stepped foot in the ring, that's who I fight for. And that's who I work extra hard for when I'm tired, to feed my family and to make sure that they are going to be alright after boxing.

Our efforts in Congress should focus on what we can agree on: investing in the success of local entrepreneurs to create jobs, helping hard-working families get ahead and reducing our spiraling debt.

Now I'm at the Premier League and help my family. That's all that matters.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.

People in Michigan don't care about the president's Twitter feed. We care about feeding our families.

That's your dream, to get paid and take care of your family. But you still want to win, too.

There are a lot of things that people love, they just can't do for a living.

I don't fight for my legacy or for the glory or anything like that. The feedback from the fans is nice, don't get me wrong; it's a good feeling having them - you on their side. But I'm motivated by making a good living for my family, and that's what made me get serious about this.

I'm getting money over here. I'm good, I'm young, I'm finally in a position to feed my family; please don't take that away from me.