Seth Moulton Quotes

If you want a more productive economy, you need to invest in the skills of our workforce.

While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, we could not do so, due to lack of skilled manpower.

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

If we're not creating an educated and skilled workforce, there is just no conceivable way that were going to be economically competitive.

So if we are really concerned about generating more taxes, we ought to be investing in our people, not taking away the kinds of resources that contribute to their ability to become greater taxpayers in this country.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

First create jobs, and then provide skills to people.

This 21st century economy holds great promise for our people. But unless we give all Americans the skills they need to succeed, countries like India and China will take good-paying jobs that should be ours.

We need to invest in a way that makes sure we've got the workforce we need in the future.

The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American's needs for a skilled work force.

Each day, we're sharpening Iowa's competitive edge in education and expanding our workplace partnerships with job-ready, STEM savvy, lifelong learners.

I'm working with the New Dems, who are talking about the future of work, which is something I'm very interested in in New Jersey.

The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.

To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.

Productivity - the amount of output delivered per hour of work in the economy - is often viewed as the engine of progress in modern capitalist economies. Output is everything. Time is money. The quest for increased productivity occupies reams of academic literature and haunts the waking hours of C.E.O.s and finance ministers.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

This country has been economically successful because of cheap energy and cheap labor and we are never going to have these again.

There is a large change coming in the jobs of America and competition from abroad. We should prepare for it rather than let history overwhelm us.

Our nations workers are our nation’s greatest asset.

Brazil must increase the value of its human capital by investing in knowledge and technology.

The skills and productivity of American Workers, .... are the greatest economic resource our country has.

Education is economic development.

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.