John Hickenlooper Quotes

If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

I learned that unemployment can be the great educator.

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

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

Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.

Central and western Pennsylvania has one of the best workforces in the country and this will provide job training, new skills and additional resources for those trying to find a job.

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

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.

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

In Japan, a company worker's position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.

To avoid becoming chronically unemployed, people need more than platitudes offering sympathy. Career reinvention requires encouragement and guidance.

You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

I was happy being a journalist. I didn't realize losing my job, my identity went with it.

I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

We need to figure out how to connect people to jobs.

One of the big issues in Ohio and elsewhere is people do not have the skills to take advantage of the openings that are out there.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

By putting this music out, I think I genuinely eliminated 80 percent of the previous jobs I was qualified for.

You can't go into Youngstown, Ohio, and tell everybody they're going to be retrained and go work for Google or Apple.