Jobless Quotes

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work must be torn up.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

There are a number of people who are not in the workforce who have given up looking for jobs, and that's the real economic crisis in America.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance.

Imagine people’s height being proportional to their income, so that someone with an average income is of average height. Now imagine that the entire population of America is walking past you in a single file of ascending income. The owners of losing businesses are invisible; their heads are below ground. Then come the jobless and the working poor who are midgets. After half an hour, the strollers are still only waste high as the median income is have the mean [average].… Then the normal size people enter. Soon, giants thunder by and are 12 feet tall and they get taller. When the last 400 people walk by at the end, each is two miles tall.

Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

The thought of me not having to clock in for a job anymore is something that I can't really put into words, aside from 'amazing' and 'awesome.'

I never had a job. I never saw myself working for corporate business.

I'm the only person I know who's never had a regular job.

As a kid who failed out of high school as a freshman, I know firsthand and personally that sense of hopelessness and just being - drifting in the wrong direction, having really no hope. And being able to harness that frustration was incredibly valuable in my life. That's one of the reasons I focus so consistently on the foundation of education, because it helps to eviscerate those things that - unemployment, high jobless rates, poverty.

I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.

First National Bank laid off 1,000 people; where do they go? There are no jobs for them. So we are having serious economic problems in this country. We are in a real economic crisis.

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

If you don't have children and you don't have a job, you have time for friendship ... People who have jobs are not the best friends to have. It's better to be friends with people who are unemployed.

The people who are unemployed want to do the work, but the system is such a catastrophic failure that it cannot bring together idle hands and work. This is all hailed as a great success, and it is a great success - for a very small sector of the population.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

Every month, we get the reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that say even more people have given up looking for work.

There's a stage where you're desperate to get a job, and you're waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, 'Please, please, please! I'm over here - give me a job!'

Once you stop looking for a job, you are no longer considered part of the unemployment number.

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.

Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp.

Basically he never went to work and didn't have a job. Of course I thought he did. I thought he was on the phone doing business deals instead of borrowing money from people.