Bob Holden Quotes

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

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

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

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

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

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

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.

More Americans are working today than at any time in history.

The priority of my government’s action is the creation of jobs, lots of jobs.

We need companies to create jobs.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

Americans underemployed or unemployed and a President Trump will put them back to work.

We need to focus on jobs.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

While others may get distracted, I will continue to focus on the problem of unemployment and seek to help create good, high-paying jobs for Arkansans.

Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

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.

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.

We are fighting to bring more jobs to the people of Missouri.

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.

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.