Ronnie Barker Quotes

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

Our businesses can't create jobs when they're losing revenue, and the unemployed can't apply for jobs when they can't pay their phone bill.

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

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

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

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

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.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Unemployment is painful.

… there are a great many people who not only can make no budget but can barely manage to exist with their families on what they earn from day to day

For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.

It's pretty rare to just talk to people who are having a tough time in the economy, to hear their individual stories.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

My father's money vanished in the Great Depression, and he had trouble keeping a job.

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 was working at Lowes and Target, then FedEx, and still did not have enough money to pay rent on my own.

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

I was struggling, I was hungry, I was a freelance copy editor but had very little work.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

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

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.