John Podhoretz Quotes

Back in the old days, you had to work. If you didn't work, you didn't get paid.

This is the greatest country in the world for people who want to work, but we have to make sure that this is always true..

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

If you work, you should not be poor.

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.

The progeny of the immigrants of yesterday have always feared the immigrants of today would usurp their jobs and lower their standard of living. All Americans have been the progeny of immigrants except for those who were immigrants themselves.

For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Americans want to work. We want to take care of our families. It's in our DNA, the American work ethic.

Americans like workers, people who slog. I love working.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'

Where there is a worker, there lies a nation.

No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you are an American - first generation or fifth - one who is willing to work hard, play by the rules and apply your God-given talents - that you should be able to find a job that pays the bills.

Together we will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare.

I like being in the workforce; it keeps me grounded.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

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.

I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.