Stephen F. Lynch Quotes

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

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.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

The minute your membership looses a job that can be identified, economic theory goes out the window. You're dealing with frightened human beings.

This is a political season where politicians will do almost anything to prey on the public’s fear of job loses.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

Most of the folks to whom I listen are concerned for their future. Too many of them know someone who's out of work, has lost their own job, or fear they might. And, they increasingly believe that the opportunity for a better life for their children is slipping away.

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

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

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs increasingly at risk of going overseas.