Ben Bernanke Quotes

When you have 7 percent unemployed, you have 93 percent working.

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.

Millions of Americans are either underemployed or unemployed.

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

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

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.

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

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

The White House says that the unemployment rate is good news because it means more people are looking for jobs. More good news like that, and everyone at the White House will be looking for jobs.

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

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Two new workers are being added to the population for every one job that is created.

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I've heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.

The unemployment rate has effectively not gone down from where it was at the peak of the recession. The only reason it's gone technically from 10 percent to 8 percent is so many people are discouraged and have quit work.

People aren't stupid. I mean, people remember in 1990, the unemployment rate was 10 percent. Now it's 4 _ percent. We've got 1/4 million jobs that we've created.

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

Jobs in America are the key to a stable environment.

The priority of my government’s action is the creation of jobs, lots of jobs.

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.