Nipsey Hussle Quotes

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

I am lucky because my family are comfortably off. My father has his own glass business.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.

If you work, you should not be poor.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

Everything needs to work at the same time. But what keeps society vibrant permanently is jobs, industry, business, and stuff like that. It pays for everything else. If you just build affordable housing, and those people don't have jobs, it'll no longer be affordable soon. So you really have to build around the business community.

We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.