Emily Thornberry Quotes

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

After we were married, we were broke. Flat broke. Not only did we not have health insurance, we could barely keep a roof over our heads, let alone have the kind of coin to throw around on onesies and Pampers.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I didn't have money growing up.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I am, as they say, the classic starving artist.

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite a traumatic effect.

I'd met a woman and I got married, but the money ran out right away. I hadn't had a job for seven months, and it just came over me that I was never going to work again. It hit me.

I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.