Rick Perry Quotes

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

I am concerned about the economy. I was the first one laid off.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

I am telling you, you can’t play politics with people’s jobs.

Unemployment is painful.

I would just say, if Gov. Romney wants to give back all the money he's earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain, that I would be glad to listen to him. And I would bet you $10 - not $10,000 - that he would not take the offer.

The minute you do any layoffs, you might as well lay off the whole joint because everybody forgets about the customer and worries about their job security.

Every year, jobs are on the line.

The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'

President Obama should heed the advice of many of his own Democratic colleagues who have called the attacks 'nauseating' and 'unfair' and stay clear of criticizing Romney for his tenure at Bain Capital.

Why are CEO's who slash jobs so proud of themselves? Instead of bragging about 'cutting fat,' they ought to be getting up before their employees and saying, We did such a lousy job of planning and hiring that we have more people than work. And we are so broke and so dim-witted that we can't come up with any way to get more work. So our only solution is to send a lot of good people home. I am ashamed and I am sorry.

We have to stop our jobs from being stolen from us.

In the career world we are downsizing. That means the one person that will keep their job will do three or four jobs for the same amount of money. You have to be that way these days.

The fact is that Paul Ryan's job is what John Boehner's job was in 2012 when Mitt Romney was running. his job is to make sure the Republicans get re-elected.

My parents were constantly afraid they would lose their jobs. The idea that we were always a paycheck away from disaster was drilled into me.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

The dream of having one's dream job turned into "Oh my God, I'll take any job. I've been out of work for two years now. I don't care what I do. I'll do anything because I don't have any money".

Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.

It is a health care law [ObamaCare] that is basically forcing companies to lay people off, cut people's hours, move people to part-time. It is not just a bad health care law, it is a job-killing law.