Mitch McConnell Quotes

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

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

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

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.

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, 'Joey, the guy in Olyphant's out of work, it's an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law's out of work, it's a recession. When you're out of work, it's a depression.'

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

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.

We have caused them to be barren and unemployed though each of them had been working and qualified in a trade from which he could make a living.

It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

There are far too many people who get up early in the morning, and work hard, who cannot make ends meet.

For too many of our young people, that once-promised American dream has given way to an American debt burden and a bleak job market.

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.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

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

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

I used to listen to 'Ready to Die' around the time I dropped out of college. I was scrambling for work and money.

No one I know has a job anymore. They've got gigs.

I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

Waiting tables has never paid my bills, a fact which I prefer to hide from my colleagues with deep sighs about the price of just about everything.

When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.