Bill Clinton Quotes

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

Training does not create jobs—good ones or bad ones.

More than anything else, Ohio needs jobs.

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

I want to provide jobs for people.

I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.

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.

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.

What most Americans mean when they say "the end of the recession" is, "When will it be back to normal? When can we get jobs? When will the employment rate be back to 4 percent or 5 percent?"

Every time I have a political rally I meet some people who say, "I need a job."

I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

Job creation is important I think, but it's not the critical issue for Republicans.

I've always said that the most important thing is job creation. Jobs will earn people money and build self-confidence.

I think it's important to not have some sort of one-size-fits-all program in Washington, which has downsides, like killing entry-level jobs. But pulling people into the workforce...

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population.

The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work.

I think it's important to focus on our economy, on jobs, on getting America back to work.

20,000 jobs is really not that many jobs.

America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts.

People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.

Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.