Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

Paul Ryan is the mercenary champion of Hillary Clinton's - this is Hillary Clinton's. This came out of the State Department. This Trans Pacific Partnership is going to export our jobs. It's going to import foreign workers to replace Americans and our jobs.

Workers come to America to fill jobs unwanted by Americans, but they are staying and they are not going home.

Debates about trade inevitably revolve around the question of jobs, even thought trade has little effect of aggregate employment levels.

We must, by every reasonable means, import our people, not in one branch of industry, not merely as farmers, as tillers of the soil, but we must bring out of every kind of industry, must develop the minds of the people and their energies.

We shouldn't bring in foreign workers to do jobs that belong to U.S. citizens.

People in the U.S. welcome us. We're solving their employment problems.

The jobs Americans don't want are the ones the migrants fill.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

We need foreign skills to stay competitive.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

In the early spring of this year there were actually and proportionately more people out of work in this country than in any other nation in the world.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

Where would we be without the Italians Czechoslovaks the Portuguese the Greeks and Lebanese? Who would do the dirty work?