Jay Rockefeller Quotes

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

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.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

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

You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.

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.

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

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 ...

The Democrats have an answer to the unemployment problem. They're all running for the Presidency.

More than anything else, Ohio needs jobs.

The issue most on Hoosiers' minds is job creation, job retention, and household income.

One of the most important topics I think for us all to work on is job creation.

We need to focus on jobs.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

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.

The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.

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

The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash the forces of job creation in America. The source of new jobs isn't going to be the bureaucracies of Washington, but rather the creativity, ingenuity, and hard work of the American people.

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

Connecting people to jobs and to each other is absolutely vital to a city's economy (and to the wider economy).

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

Before Barack Obama took office, it looked like that pride could have vanished forever, but today, from the staggering depths of the Great Recession, the nation has had 29 straight months of job growth. Workers across my state and across the country are getting back the dignity of a good job and a good salary.