Mario Diaz-Balart Quotes

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

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

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%.

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

Let nobody be fooled, the next two quarters are not going to be easy either in terms of growth or employment.

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.

In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

The last six months of the Bush administration lost four million jobs and the first six months of the Obama administration lost another four million before any initiatives of the president could take action.

A lot of my friends aren't working, especially since fewer films are being made now and there's more competition.

Europe is a strong market for the U.S. If it has problems, if there's a lack of consumer confidence, if there's a deeper recession, this will deeply affect jobs in the U.S.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.