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Quotes About Jobs

If we could figure out the big economic question - which really is how do we get wealth out of the coasts and into the industrial Midwest and start creating real jobs by the hundreds, if not by the thousands - in places like I represent, that's a game changer for me.
~ Tim Ryan
We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
~ Jesse Jackson
I prefer to take the view of businesspeople who are actually generating jobs and creating wealth.
~ Michael Gove
The Republicans are wrong in thinking that the rich create jobs. In reality, many of the richest Americans have been investing in efficiency innovations rather than to create jobs. And the Democrats are wrong, because growth won't happen if they distribute the wealth of the wealthy to everyone else.
~ Clayton M. Christensen
Ethanol reduces our dependence on foreign sources of oil and is an important weapon in the War on Terror. By investing in South Dakota's ethanol producers, we will strengthen our energy security and create new jobs.
~ John Thune
President Trump will release America's pent-up energy potential, get rid of foreign oil, trash punitive regulations, create millions of jobs, and develop our most strategic geopolitical weapon: crude oil.
~ Harold Hamm
There are many valid concerns about AI, from its impact on jobs to its uses in autonomous weapons systems and even to the potential risk of superintelligence.
~ Oren Etzioni
I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
~ D. J. Cotrona
Communities have indicated they'd like support for an advisory board. See, communities want jobs. They don't want a company to go away. They work for those companies. That's how they feed their families, send their kids to college. But they don't want to be poisoned, either.
~ Erin Brockovich
There is nothing better than just policies that say, 'Come on: grow your jobs here.'
~ Tim Griffin
Government does not create jobs, but it can help set the table for economic growth with the right policies.
~ Sam Graves
We need policies that will allow U.S. companies to invest in their business, innovate for the future, and create U.S. jobs.
~ Mark Parker
Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.
~ Bob Beauprez
Typically, if a politician makes immigration an issue, it's because of the belief that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
~ Mary Pilon
Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
~ Frances Beinecke
The H-1B program was never intended to create a pool of foreign labor that displaces Americans' opportunities for good-paying jobs.
~ Eugene Scalia
Rising energy costs kill jobs and hit America's poorest the hardest.
~ Elaine Chao
Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.
~ Anthony Scaramucci
This is a very difficult question. If you take a look at the aging population and demographics, we are going to have a big increase in the number of health care jobs needed in the state and in the country.
~ Dave Obey
Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
~ Marvin Olasky
Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees.
~ Jennifer Granholm
We need to create jobs across Africa and provide its growing population with a route out of poverty where they are.
~ Priti Patel
Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.
~ Elaine Chao
Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger.
~ Vivek Wadhwa