Conner Eldridge Quotes

You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

Everybody in America must have a sense that he can get a job and a have a decent standard of living.

I'm worried about that man or woman sitting around - the coffee table tonight or in their kitchen talking about how are we going to get to work. How are we going to have the dignity to take care of our family.

In the past, if I didn't work, I didn't eat but now I feel I can not work and I won't starve.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.

There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.

Money is ammunition and the surest way I know to make lasting friends, to earn trust and create peace is by providing meaningful jobs, putting people back to work so they can feed their families.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

For most of America's history, people typically aspired to acquire 'a competency' rather than great riches. A competency meant the ability to comfortably sustain a household without depending on others. 'Competence' also meant being capable and reliable. The American Dream was that people who worked hard and capably could support their families.

I want to be part of making sure that decent, honorable, humble, hardworking people in Pennsylvania can look their kids in the eyes. And when they put in their 40 hours, they can say to their kids, 'I got you.'

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

Our growing, robust economy is able to provide the average American citizen access to the best social program there is - a steady job.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

I never wanted to rely on my family for money.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.