Mel Lastman Quotes

I don't want a job, and I think I've been trying my hardest to make sure I don't have a job.

Show me a man with very little money and I will show you a bum.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

I hate not working. It's that lack of purpose. It becomes very easy to lie in until midday.

I was a single parent, and I was prohibited from working.

I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace.

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work!

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all the time and think of stupid stuff to do.

When you haven't got a job, a joke is about the only thing that's free.

When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.

Having no work would be terrible.

I like not having a job, not having to get up early in the morning is awesome. I would recommend it to anybody.

I totally remember that: being 25 and unemployed and trying to stretch each cappuccino for 60 minutes.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

The nation’s priority is stability.

For the past five years we’ve been deluged by programs for the unemployed, programs for the cities, programs for the poor. And we have reaped from these programs an ugly harvest of frustration, violence and failure across the land

Unemployed people are spoiled

Hundreds of policemen and detectives, swinging nightsticks, blackjacks, and bare fists, rushed into the crowd, hitting out at all with whom they came into contract, chasing many across the street and into adjacent thoroughfares and pushing hundreds off their feet. From all parts of the scene of battle came the screams of women and cries of men with bloody heads and faces.