Job Allocation Quotes

After your first victory as New York Governor you gave jobs worth $3,000 to $20,000 per year to your friends and compatriots, and I returned to my garret and my crust, and my desperate battle with pecuniary obligations.

No duty ... was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

Which of us?is to do the hard and dirty work for the restand for what pay? Who is to do the pleasant and clean work, and for what pay?

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.

A leader's most important decisions are about people. Who do you put in which jobs? How long do you leave them in a job?

Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'.

Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

Can you let me know what positions you have at your disposal with which to reward deserving Democrats?