Charles Mason Quotes

You would be amazed how many people call my office looking for work every day.

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

It's hard to get a job. There are more lawyers within a five-mile radius of wherever you're sitting than there are Division I jobs.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

You couldn't beg, borrow, or steal a job in 1931, 1932... it was really tough.

Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

For instance, twelve men are struggling for employment in a trade where there is only room for eight ; four are driven out of that trade, but they are not trampled out of existence. A good deal of competition merely decides what kind of work a man is to do though of course when a man can only do one kind of work, it may easily become a struggle for bare life.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

The bar to get entry into the labour force is rising faster than people expected, and the ability to stay there is falling.

My family was well off but not rich. 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. That was a disequilibrium system. I realized that the ordinary old-fashioned Euclidean geometry didn't apply.

I know what it's like to be on public assistance and to be unemployed. And I know what it's like to be evicted.

Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

I walked the streets of New York for two years begging for a job, and I couldn't get one.

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.

American Dream Is Under Assault. People that haven't been able to find a job in months and this growing sense in this country that this is the new normal, well we can't accept that.