Barack Obama Quotes

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

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

We want to generate jobs in the U.S.

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.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

We don't need a president who just says, "Gentlemen, start your engines." We need a president who says, America, let's start our economy and put people back to work.

I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again.

We will have created a tremendous economic machine once again. To do that, we're taking back jobs.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

To create jobs, a modern economy requires modern investments.

I want to use every tool in the toolbox that's at our disposal to help our economy and put people back to work.

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

Government does not create jobs, it only creates the conditions that make jobs more or less likely.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

Our economy is creating jobs and giving businesses the conditions they need to invest and succeed.

Build the roads and the jobs follow.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

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.

Can the private sector create enough good jobs that pay well for everyone that wants one?

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

Training does not create jobs—good ones or bad ones.