Donald Trump Quotes

You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

The benefits of a tariff are visible. Union workers can see they are "protected". The harm which a tariff does is invisible. It's spread widely. There are people that don't have jobs because of tariffs but they don't know it.

In America, we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers.

I thought the Bush economic policy was a disaster. We lost 500,000 private sector jobs during his tenure.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

First of all, we have seen now in six years of Obamacare that it has been a disaster. It is the biggest job-killer in this country. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work, have lost their health insurance, have lost their doctors, have seen their premiums skyrocket.

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

It is not wrong for a company to try and save money [by outsourcing jobs], but is it right for me to lose my ability to make a living.

... the rising costs and risks of these fossil fuels are undercutting the security and prosperity they have enabled. Each day, the United States spends about $2 billion buying oil and loses another $4 billion indirectly to the macroeconomic costs of oil dependence, the microeconomic costs of oil price volatility, and the cost of keeping military forces ready for intervention in the Persian Gulf.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

Historically, countries have made big energy shifts only when confronted with acute fossil-fuel crises: oil embargoes, debilitating pollution, or wars.

Globalization and deindustrialization affected workers of all colors but hit African Americans particularly hard.

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

The size of the energy sector in Mexico is just so vast; it has an outsize impact on the rest of the Mexican economy.

American jobs are being lost to foreign countries, and U.S. companies are urged to move their manufacturing plants, new technologies and headquarters overseas.

Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.

The climate-change industrial complex pontificates that the U.S. has to stop using coal to save the planet. But even if the U.S. cut our own coal production to zero, China and India are building hundreds of coal plants. By suspending American coal production, we are merely transferring jobs out of the U.S.

The bottom line is that while automation is eliminating many jobs in the economy that were once done by people, there is no sign that the introduction of technologies in recent years is creating an equal number of well-paying jobs to compensate for those losses.

The Obama administration's EPA ruling to cut carbon emissions at power plants is a direct affront to workers in states like Alabama, which not only rely upon coal-fired plants to generate most of their electricity but are also home to thousands of coal industry jobs.

NAFTA stripped us of manufacturing jobs. We lost our jobs. We lost our money. We lost our plants. It is a disaster.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the bottom rung of the economic ladder.

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.