Harriet Harman Quotes

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

Fifty-eight percent of African- American youth don't have jobs.

Unemployment is painful.

Unemployed people are spoiled

We're in a situation where talented, motivated school leavers and graduates can send off a hundred CVs and not get a reply, and where a trip to the Job Centre is depressing rather than inspirational. And you know what, that just feels wrong.

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

The youth are hurt. Our majority are youth, under 30. They have no hope. They don't get jobs.

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

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

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of young people around the world who are facing bleak employment prospects.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

I want to provide jobs for people.

There was a time I couldn't get a job.

I care about America. I care about the people that can't find jobs. I care about my 20 grandkids and what kind of America they are going to have.

I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'

I guess, as a young girl growing up in Liverpool in the '80s, when unemployment was high, my ideal job would have been to have been Minister for Employment to see, can you solve these problems? Can you get people into work?

I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.

I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble.

There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.

The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still a culture of deference, whereas in the 70s we really are in a time of angry transition. The generation that came into young adulthood in the 70s couldn't find jobs; that wasn't true in my generation. They entered a time when two depressing things hit them both at the same time.

I never went too long without a job. The problem was a lot of the early jobs are almost more demoralizing than unemployment.