John Boehner Quotes

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

Hillary Clinton is not going to be able to create jobs, I will tell you right now.

President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level.

It's like doctors can't save all their patients, but, on balance, Bain under Gov. Romney created well over 100,000 jobs, which is certainly more than has been created in the Obama administration because we're down over 500,000 over the last three-and-a-half years.

Three years ago, this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and he said, look, if I can't turn this economy around in three years, I'll be looking at a one-term proposition, and we're here to collect! You know the results. It's been 35 months of unemployment above 8 percent.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

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

The examples of the Obama Administration 'stimulating' jobs everywhere on the planet except here in America are endless.

Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.

Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.

The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

We cannot tax the same people we expect to create jobs. That is a recipe for keeping people out of work.