Barack Obama Quotes

We should continue to grow our economy and create employment opportunities, particularly quality jobs to help the upward mobility of young people.

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.

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it's a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it's the other way around.

If we don't create private sector jobs and just - just creating public sector jobs, we're going nowhere. This is a bad game. You've got to have innovation. You've got to have tax policies that support innovation.

We don't hear our president [Barack Obama] talking about the need for high-quality jobs for everybody, giving it priority, not just giving a speech in Detroit. That's fine, but speaking to Tim Geithner, speaking to Larry Summers. When are you going to make jobs, jobs, jobs a priority rather than Wall Street, Wall Street, Wall Street a priority? That's what I'm concerned about.

We've got to create more good jobs with rising incomes.

Jobs are central to the American dream - and President Obama has focused on jobs from day one.

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

A nation that cannot create jobs cannot survive.

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

We need to give up the idea that economic growth alone can or will reach down to provide good jobs to the chronically unemployed .... Only a strong program of public employment has ever achieved that in the past ...

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

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.

I’m not in the business of creating jobs.

Our present numbers are so happily proportioned to our wants that no man need be idle.

Infrastructure investments lead to jobs. And quality of life starts with a good job.

Most people recognize that to create jobs is really the essential element in their drive against poverty.

Creating large numbers of decent jobs for young people is critical for achieving overall development objectives, from poverty reduction to better health and education.

We made a commitment to the people of this state that we would focus on jobs, health and education. We made a commitment that we would work as hard as we possibly can to make sure that people across our state can get access to employment.

I have a very clear jobs agenda for Queensland, and I expect everybody to support that jobs agenda.

Why should we make our constituents wait on job growth?

Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.

Looking to the future I see in the further acceleration of science continuous jobs for our workers. Science will cure unemployment.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.

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