Margaret Thatcher Quotes

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

There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

The unemployed want to work. They are not chiselers.

I ask to be judged on the issue of unemployment.

It doesn't matter whether I'm in Hackensack or Hackettstown, the response from the people is the same: They are concerned about jobs, the economy.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant.

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

Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.

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

I wasn't worried about unemployment.

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.

Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.

Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

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

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

In the best of years, millions of jobs are lost.

The way Obama voters and non-Obama voters deal with unemployment are a very different.

The big story of 2013, a very distressing year, is that Americans continue not to be able to find the full-time jobs they need, and that's something which the president has to recognize as the first priority of his administration.

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.

I've been kept from honest employment for a long, long time now. Thank God!

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.