Emanuel Cleaver Quotes

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.

Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

People are worried about what’s going to happen to their jobs. There’s a lot of off-shoring and out-sourcing taking place. There’s a lot more mobility of labor and of people. Unless we explain what’s happening, people will resort to protectionism and xenophobia.

With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.

We want to export our products but not our jobs.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

President Bush has said that the economy is growing, that there are jobs out there. But you know, it's a long commute to China to get those jobs.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

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

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

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

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

You would think that if any group in America had 20% to 25% unemployment, it would generate all kinds of attention. The Labor Department would understandably and necessarily begin to concentrate on what can we do to reduce this level of unemployment. Congress would give great time on the floor for debate on what can be done.

There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore.

A while ago I did a story comparing the change in employment rates in recessions in the U.S. and in Europe, and what I found was that America fired a lot of people and rehired a lot of people faster than Europe. That difference is disappearing, and that is a problem.

Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

It is not wrong for a company to try and save money [by outsourcing jobs], but is it right for me to lose my ability to make a living.

Jobs are being outsourced at such an alarming rate My neighbor has no job at all with no prospects to date. So perhaps I should be thankful for the little that I make If I dare to ask for a living wage My job would be at stake.

The data on worker displacement after NAFTA reads like a funeral program for the middle class.