John Ensign Quotes

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

Everybody wants to help folks out. But we've got a system where you can stay on unemployment for an awfully long time. And I think we need to create a system of decreasing benefits over time to encourage you to get a job.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

We have to create jobs but also make sure that those who are looking for work aren't just left without any assistance whatsoever.

I worked at the Illinois unemployment office. I got $55 a week and the unemployed got $45. And they only had to come in once a week.

Anyone with a job wants to hear about how to keep it or get a better one, not what a politician has to offer when workers find themselves with a pink slip.

I don't think we need to extend unemployment any further without paying for it, and without making some modifications such as turning it into a loan at some point. It then encourages people to go back to work.

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.

Unfortunately, very few governments think about youth unemployment when they are drawing up their national plans.

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

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

You know, it cuts both ways... no one wants to lose a job, but everybody wants to work.

I will tell you that I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.

There is only one way to reduce unemployment in France: You have to explain to the French people that they have to work harder.

Jobs, jobs, jobs.

We want the States to have a work and training program. We want the States to see to it that those who are drawing an unemployment check … unless there is a good cause for them not to, to be required to take … training and then work …

There should be unemployment insurance for fictional people.

We got to put in place policies to ensure that those who are unemployed, what do we do for them?

No politician in a European sense is happy with 26 million people unemployed. Nobody can be happy with 6 to 9 million young people unemployed. You have to give them hope and confidence and a sense of inspiration that the European process is actually about people, not about bureaucracy.

Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.

People say, 'I'm for job training. We can train people to increase the likelihood that they can be self-sufficient.' Okay, that's great, you're for job training - I like job training - but do you think the federal government should have 163 different job-training programs?

I haven't got a real job.