Maggie Hassan Quotes

To realize President Obama's vision of opportunity for all, it's all about making the right match. The way we do that is through job-driven training - connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready to be-filled jobs. It helps more people secure a foothold in the middle class and helps businesses to profit and grow.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

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

What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

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 feel very strongly about making work pay, about getting people transitioned from welfare to work. Get people skills they need, help they need, so they can get on the ladder of life.

It doesn't matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job - a J-O-B. It really matters to people that they have an opportunity to contribute to their economy in a very meaningful way, and this is outside party lines. So we believe that these are the solutions that America is craving.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

I feel we should be able … to find a way of employing more of these so-called unemployables

It is crucial to bridge the critical gap between manpower availability and employability by providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for all to grow and prosper.

A fundamental way to build and expand our middle class and economy is to create a modern and well-paid workforce.

A job is the best cure for poverty, and that's why economic development and job creation has been my principle focus.

What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.

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.

People in this country should be able to find economic opportunity and meaningful jobs in the places they grew up.

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.

I want a society that provides decent jobs for those who can work and decent security for those can't.

These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again.

Safety-net programs must make efficient use of taxpayer resources and harness the capabilities of recipients by helping them move back into the workforce.

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training, job-readiness skills, literacy instruction and, if necessary, the counseling and mental-health services they need to move into the mainstream workforce.