Gordon Brown Quotes

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.

We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.

All unemployment compensation should be tied to a job training requirement. Now the fact is, 99 weeks is an associate degree.

I would have benefited a lot from proper training. I could have done with a strong wake-up call about getting jobs.

We want the States to have a work and training program. We want the States to see to it that those who are drawing an unemployment check … unless there is a good cause for them not to, to be required to take … training and then work …

We need to make sure we do more job retraining, and that's why we're working to have a 5-million-apprenticeship dream.

While I was governor, 85 percent of the people on a form of welfare assistance in my state had no work requirement. I wanted to increase the work requirement.

Who's going to be against getting workers the skills they need to be successful?

While we can't begrudge companies for maximizing cost efficiency, we need to empower and properly train our workforce for the skilled jobs demanded in the 21st century.

Education is how to help the person who's lost a job. Education is how to make sure we've got a workforce that's productive and competitive.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

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 is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.

Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.

We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.

We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.

The best job training is a job – any job.

We have middle skill jobs available, and high skill jobs available. There are no longer and unskilled jobs.

Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.

Do you want to use your tax dollars to educate more people who can't get jobs? I want to make sure that we spend our money where people can get jobs when they get out.