Esther McVey Quotes

I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.

I went to work at 11 years old. I became governor. It's not a big deal. Work doesn't hurt anybody. I'm all for not allowing a 12-year-old to work 40 hours. But a 12-year-old working eight to 10 hours a week or a 14-year-old working 12 to 15 hours a week is not bad.

When I was 18 years old, I had a Saturday job working in a clothing store on London's Bond Street. I would fold T-shirts for ten hours at a time and get paid £19 for the privilege.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

When I was 16, I spent a year pushing trollies around a car park, and that wasn't fun. I didn't love working in a supermarket; it wasn't for me. It is for some people, and that's totally cool.

The 'Welfare Reform and Work' Bill does nothing to address low wages, or underemployment, and I haven't even got started on how it undermines the provision of affordable housing.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

I spent my summers in Connecticut scooping ice cream and babysitting.

I think it's a little insulting, a bit insulting to American workers when Rand Paul says that unemployment insurance is a disservice.

I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.

Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.

Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger King. We had to come up with ways to create an income.

I started working when I was 13, picking up trash, bagging ice.

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.

I was a manual labourer. I figured out really early on that the value of my life could be determined by my hourly rate as a manual labourer digging holes.

The principal problem facing our economy today is jobs.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.