Charles Barkley Quotes

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

If young men have jobs - or the prospects of jobs - they are less likely to take up arms, they are less likely to join the resistance.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

Working at the White House is an honor for any preacher's kid from Magnolia, but the issue is jobs.

I'm not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I'm worried about what's actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids' jobs.

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.

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.

Labour's priorities are clear: jobs and the economy must come first; not party interests or ideological fantasies.

You have a job but you don't always have job security, you have your own home but you worry about mortgage rates going up, you can just about manage but you worry about the cost of living and the quality of the local school because there is no other choice for you.rankly, not everybody in Westminster understands what it's like to live like this and some need to be told that it isn't a game.

In order to bring down the incarceration rate, you've got to start with the beginning of life. You've got to make sure that parents and schools are prepared to prepare young people for success. You've got to deal with the next stage of life. You've got to make sure that people have the opportunity to work at a good job, they have access to good healthcare, and that they have the opportunity to build wealth over time.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

Republicans believe the best way to assure prosperity is to generate more jobs. The Democrats believe in more welfare.

If you're planning on dropping out of high school, prepare yourself for the future by repeating aloud each day: 'I'm looking forward to low-paying jobs for the rest of my life.'

People want to know how do they pay for education and they want to figure out how to find and maintain meaningful employment. Education and the economy are polled by Latinos as the top two most important issues. But those are also the issues that everyone cares about, regardless of race; so we don't need to be divided over it.

A job for your family, a paycheck in your mailbox - they're the ultimate proof that your state is doing things right!

I mean, that's the least we should do for these men and women [veterans and military spouses], is to make sure they come back to jobs that pay, to career opportunities, that these spouses are able to add a second income to their households, because these families do not have a lot of resources.

Education is a very empowering experience, so many people who went to school also managed to improve their quality of life much faster because they could get a job, they could get money. Once people see that you improve your life if you are educated, then education becomes a valuable tool and people want it.

When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration.

Politicians pass laws for gun-free school zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them, and in doing so, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are the safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. I call on Congress today to act immediately, to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school - and to do it now, to make sure that blanket of safety is in place when our children return to school in January.