Gary Cohn Quotes

As Ronald Reagan understood, the difference between a good tax structure and a poor one has a very real impact not only on how much money we have in our pockets every April 15th, but whether we have a job to support our families in the first place.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

The number one focus of the American people has been jobs and the economy.

We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

Today, a skilled manager makes more than the owner. And owners fight each other to get the skilled managers.

In a zero corporate tax rate environment, if the private sector doesn't create tens of millions of jobs, then I don't know what it takes to create tens of millions of jobs.

I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how wage cuts would affect the behavior of the employees. Would they quit or feel dissatisfied and work less hard on the firm's behalf if they feel that wage policies are unfair?

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

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

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

Employment no longer responds to governments …

The question today is whether we should be creating millions of new jobs at present wages or fewer new jobs at better wages.

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

It is essential to reduce taxes on employment and wealth creation in order to enhance our economy's competitiveness. But I don't think it's sensible today to write a Conservative budget … with specific pledges on tax reduction.

There is no way of keeping profits up but by keeping wages down.