Chuka Umunna Quotes

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

Instead of focusing on this sort of defeatist mentality where we've gotta up the minimum wage, why don't we focus on creating better-paying jobs?

Africans don't just need more jobs: they need better jobs.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

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

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

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.

Americans want real solutions and good jobs.

We need to focus on jobs.

The best thing for workers is work, not unemployment.

I'm for creating high-paying 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.

Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

I've created tens of thousands of jobs over the years.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off, and security, on top of working fewer hours. They can thrive even in a down economy.

When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.

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

If it were up to me, every job would be somewhere in Canada.