Herbert Hoover Quotes

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

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.

The most important element for any economy is confidence.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

Stable growth ensures employment.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

I had periods when I was out of work, and I still do - I just don't worry about them as much any more.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

A nation that cannot create jobs cannot survive.

We will plant our flag on the hill of economic security.

Society and state need to afford protection against the nightmare of unemployment through economic policies that ensure balanced growth and full employment or through unemployment insurance and retraining programs.

Not having a country with a financial crisis in the year is a pretty big deal to me. But something that didn’t happen is not something that people will focus on.

The key issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

it seems to me absolutely scandalous to try to set wage levels which wipe out jobs. I mean these are people who are not on the dole. They want to work and if you price them out of the market, its gonna be a lot worse for them and for the economy.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

There will be no interruption of our permanent prosperity.

There are a lot of people in the Rust Belt who felt like, 'Nobody's concerned about me, and my shot at the American dream is going away.' We need to restore that.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

Unless you have economic security, then you can't have general security.