“When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.”
Jesse Jackson
“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
Milton Friedman
“Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed”
Edward Heath
“While my state experiences unemployment rates not seen since the Great Depression, it is unconscionable that illegal workers would be brought into Louisiana, aggravating our employment crisis and depressing earnings for our workers.”
Mary Landrieu
“[Extending unemployment benefits] is the only kind of stimulus that helps each and every unemployed worker, who in some sense has borne the pain of the recession.”
Wendell Primus
“Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.”
Ronald Reagan
“Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployed in Greenland?!”
The Princess Bride
