R. A. Salvatore Quotes

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered if the economy was booming. I think I was expecting bad jobs. But as it went on through my 20s, I began to wonder how things were going to turn out.

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate.

The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.

A recession is when a neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

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

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.

Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

In all likelihood, a significant amount of time will be required to restore the nearly eight and a half million jobs that were lost nationwide over 2008 and 2009.

So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.

We're still in a recession. We're not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

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

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I don't think it's the end of the world even if we have a recession. We'll pull back out of it again. No big deal.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

The prominence of the market I guess is important to some people. For me, it was less about the number and more about the opportunities that might open up in that market. One of the questions I wanted to know about that next job was, what's your weather like? I am into the weather!

There are always opportunities at Liverpool.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

In my head, I felt if I'd stayed at City and got a chance, I could have done a good job. It was made clear that wasn't going to happen, though.