Guy Ryder Quotes

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

Globalization has redefined the competition for employment and incomes in the United States. Tradeoffs will have to be made between the two.

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.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

Despite all the political sound and fury, little service-sector offshoring has happened to date. But it may eventually amount to a third Industrial Revolution, and industrial revolutions have a way of transforming societies.

More than anything else, Ohio needs jobs.

The first duty of this government is to give the workers work.

One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

Technology is just one of the factors affecting the world of work. Economics, demographics, sociological trends, and government policies are four other core influences reshaping labour markets and determining how we will work for years ahead.

I am running because I believe strongly that we need to get folks back to work and address the needs that the folks in the 1st Congressional District have in terms of employment and economic opportunity.

The hope is that we'll continue to create jobs for the vast majority of people. But if the situation arises that this is less and less the case, then we need to rethink, how do we make sure that everybody can make a living?

For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.