Juan Mata Quotes

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.

Man cannot maintain his morals when he has no ordinary means of living.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they first go down to the dole office because they've lost their jobs.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

In Egypt, where my research is focused, I have seen plenty of trouble in and out of the citadel. There are legions of young men who can't afford to get married, because marriage has become a very expensive proposition. They are expected to bear the burden of costs in married life, but they can't find jobs.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

The more money you take away from families is the less power that family has. And that's a basic power.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

I have a very, very normal life. I really do - with the exception of being very lucky and privileged. I have two children, a dog, and a husband. We live in New York, the kids go to school, and we're fortunate that we have flexible schedules. I like that. That's what I want.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

People without jobs cannot be expected to behave in a lawful, measured way.

There are but two families in the world … The haves and the have-nots.

Jobless Men Keep Going We Can’t Take Care of Our Own

I’m very blessed to be in a position where I can work on these issues full-time without having to go out and raise money.

Liberty is impossible if 36 thousand families at the top of the economic pyramid get as much income as 12 million families at the bottom.