“We need to make sure and that we can continue to move forward in creating jobs and getting the economy turned around. The best way to do that is to make sure that we can get Congress to adopt the American Jobs Act.” WayNeedsJobsMovingEconomyCreatingCongressBest WayMoving ForwardCreating JobsAmerican Jobs Author:Mitt Romney
“A new poll shows only 3 percent strongly approve of the job Congress is doing, with a margin of error of 4 percent, so it's possible that "less than no one" thinks they're doing a good job.” ThinkingShowsJobsPercentErrorsCongressGood JobPollsMargins Author:Jay Leno
“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.” JobsOpportunityProjectsCongressEmploymentNeighborhoodComponentsResidentsDevelopersEmployment Opportunities Author:Hakeem Jeffries
“Some fine men are in Congress, too few, trying to do a responsible job. But they are surrounded and almost neutralized by a greater number whose instinct is to make a deal before they make a decision.” MenTryingJobsDecisionDealsNumbersGreaterFineResponsibleInstinctCongress Book:Unbought and Unbossed Source: Unbought and Unbossed
“We favor putting Congress on a commission basis. Pay them for results. If they do a good job and the country prospers, they get 10% of the extra take.” IfsCountryJobsResultsPayBasesCongressFavorsExtrasGood Job Author:Gracie Allen
“The press really is not doing its job of holding their [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?” JobsFireFeetToughPressesCongressFavorsCandidatesTough Questions Author:Michael Bloomberg
“The country wants the president and the Congress focused on jobs and the economy. Any regulation that the president promulgates that isn't focused on, I think, is a risk for him, and the same is true for Congress.” ThinkingWantCountryJobsPresidentEconomyRiskCongressFocusedRegulation Author:Mara Liasson
“If the Congress is going to spend its whole time hauling up regulators and bureaucrats and looking like they're focusing on tiny, trivial things, instead of jobs and the economy, it could be a problem for them.” IfsWholeProblemJobsEconomyCongressTinyBureaucratsRegulatorsTrivial Things Author:Mara Liasson
“The American people want jobs and economic growth. Congress is doing nothing to provide that. The American people want their constitutional liberties protected. Congress is doing nothing to provide that.” PeopleWantJobsGrowthLibertyEconomicCongressProtectedDoing NothingEconomic Growth Author:Ted Cruz
“I learned by transcribing songs out of the Library of Congress collection in Washington where I was working. I got a job when I just turned twenty in 1939 and Alan [Lomax] needed some help. I listened to hundreds of records every week.” HelpingJobsSongRecordsWeekNeededTwentiesLibraryCongressCollectionsTranscribing Author:Pete Seeger
“America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.” GivingTwoKidsJobsAmericaDifferencesLeaderEconomyMomLowsStrongerUnionsStriveCongressImmigrantsCeoBetter Life Author:Barack Obama