Khaled Al-Azm Quotes

Unemployment is painful.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

I'm one of many who have seen their parents and their friends lose their jobs, lose their income, lose their livelihood because of the European Union.

Nothing has more impact on my district than unemployment.

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.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving.

Long-term unemployment is particularly costly to those directly affected, of course. But in addition, because of its negative effects on workers' skills and attachment to the labor force, long-term unemployment may ultimately reduce the productive capacity of our economy.

I can tell you that when I travel the state, when I talk to people, they are really struggling, in a very real way. They're losing their jobs, they're losing their homes, they're dealing with financial challenges.

With unemployment still abysmally high, the Obama economy is crushing Hispanics' dreams for their children to live a better life.

Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Millions of middle-class Americans, in free fall during the economic collapse that began around 2008, have had a taste of what it means to be poor.

I know what unemployment means because I was unemployed for one-and-a-half years, and I know the drama that the worker and unemployed worker faces. I know the world of the labor union better than I think anyone else does.

I'm grateful I know what it's like to be unemployed for long periods of time.

I have a lot of hard-working, blue-collar people in my district who are at the end of their unemployment benefits.

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

The hardest work in the world is being out of work.

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

I'm sick when I don't work for year or two.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.