Tim Johnson Quotes

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

Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

There was a great sag in employment beginning in 2000.

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

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.

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

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

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are still demanding and asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?' And the reason we don't have new jobs is because of the job-killing agenda pursued by President Obama and his allies in the Congress.

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

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Job loss is coming like a tsunami.

In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

The unemployment rate went down as I was governor of Massachusetts. We were losing jobs every month when I came into the state.

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.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

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

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.