Jeff Sessions Quotes

If there are not enough jobs for all, the elimination of Negro unemployment will be impossible.

There are not enough good jobs for the skill levels we have.

To be honest a great deal of the job problem is connected to foreign born immigrants

People would rather live in an area of poverty than in an area where there are no jobs, because if they live in poverty, they have a certain sense of hope they can get out of it. If there are no jobs, there's no hope. And bad things come from that.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

You know the economy is bad when illegals start complaining that Americans are taking their jobs.

One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs.

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

If there are not sufficient jobs to go around then government must create jobs to give everyone an opportunity

I don’t buy the argument that there are certain jobs that American just will not do.

But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us… hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.

Every job lost is a bomb blowing up under a family.

There are too few, low skill jobs for the number of low skill people.

Treating unemployment as a national problem is almost always a mistake. Employment trends vary dramatically by race, geography, gender and level of education. But none of that is reflected in the all-encompassing unemployment rate, and hence policies informed only by that number are bound to fall short.

For instance, twelve men are struggling for employment in a trade where there is only room for eight ; four are driven out of that trade, but they are not trampled out of existence. A good deal of competition merely decides what kind of work a man is to do though of course when a man can only do one kind of work, it may easily become a struggle for bare life.

My family was well off but not rich. I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble. That was a disequilibrium system. I realized that the ordinary old-fashioned Euclidean geometry didn't apply.

We need to preserve jobs in America for American citizens first, and none of the other presidential candidates are - are addressing this issue. It's not politically correct, but it is one thing we could do right away to have jobs in America for American citizens first.

Americans don't believe that we have a surplus of jobs. They believe that we have a surplus of job seekers, and they are competing for these jobs.

Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.

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

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.

African-Americans now 45 percent poverty in the inner cities. The education is a disaster. Jobs are essentially nonexistent.