Employment Opportunities Quotes

• We need to have a strong economy that can create employment opportunities and that can also produce the revenue that we need to defend our country at home and abroad.

  Bob Menendez

  Country, Strong, Home

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• Reduced employment opportunities is one effect of minimum wage legislation. The minimum wage law has imposed incalculable harm on the disadvantaged members of our society. The only moral thing to do is to repeal it.

  Walter E. Williams

  Opportunity, Law, Employment

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• In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.

  Manmohan Singh

  Country, Opportunity, Employment

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• The GDP approach doesn't address many aspects of human life: health, education, political liberty, religious liberty, employment opportunities. And these are not all that well correlated with gross domestic product. We also have to think about equality among groups. And freedom of speech and religion. China always ranks near the top of developing countries these days, but there are lots of things we might see as lacking in China.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Country, Religious, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• You need companies investing in these countries, so women have employment opportunities, and you also need these forces of conscience. Without the activists, in the United States we would still have child labor, we would still have 16-hour days.

  Pietra Rivoli

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  Source: content.time.com

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• Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

  Sheldon Richman

  Opportunity, Government, Employment

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• Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

  Morris S. Tremaine

  Inspirational, Country, Business

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• I do believe that, under the law, under the Constitution of the United States, and under our public policy, that women deserve and should have a right to enjoy equal employment opportunity.

  Gloria Allred

  Believe, Opportunity, Should Have

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• And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Successful, Opportunity

  Campaign speech, Wittenberg College, Springfield, Ohio, October 17, 1960.

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• My job in Congress is to identify projects with federal or some other public component and then to push developers to provide employment opportunities to neighborhood residents.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Jobs, Opportunity, Employment

  "Hakeem Jeffries Interview: New York 8th Congressional District Candidate Discusses Education and Healthcare". Interview with Andrew Wilkes, mic.com. July 27, 2012.

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• The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

  Anuj

  Technology, Opportunity, Employment

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• Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

  Ron Paul

  Opportunity, Employment, Minimum Wage

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• We must adopt reforms which will expand the range of opportunities for all Americans. We can fulfill the American dream only when each person has a fair chance to fulfill his own dreams. This means equal voting rights, equal employment opportunity and new opportunities for expanded ownership, because in order to be secure in their human rights, people need access to property rights.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.11, Best Books on

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