“Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.” JobsDifficultPiecesHappenedPoliticianLegislationCatchySlappingAcronymsJumpstart Author:Steven Rattner
“We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.” JobsPoliticalValuesCommunityModernConditionsSecurityPoliticianDirectConservativeFantasticHypocrisyWagesAssaultConservatismSalaryHypocriteConductingFamily ValuesPretenceInsincereDuplicityAnti Conservative Author:Paul Keating
“We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.” SelfDoneJobsFormSocialTermCommunityResultsCompassionPovertyMankindPoliticianNormalStandardsBuiltEntrepreneurRaisedWorkersEngagedExecutivesMarchServingCompassionateCapitalistHandfulHealedBannerSocial WorkerSelf Serving Author:Nathaniel Branden
“It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.” IfsTryingJobsLyingPoliticianCostEarsPeter Author:H. L. Mencken
“To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” WantProblemGovernmentJobsPovertyPoliticianPromiseThreatCancerSolveUnemploymentBureaucracyNo ProblemSolved Problems Author:L. Neil Smith
“If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.” IfsWantBelieveTodayJobsFightingI BelieveEasyPositionPoliticianDemandGloryDefeatExtremesI Believe InDebateHardestModeratesFieryHardest Job Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.” PeopleIfsLittlesCountryWisdomJobsPoliticalEnergyProductsPoliticianEatingMachinesWorkersIdeologyRoutineDistributionMachinery Book:Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity Source: Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.” WellsEyeJobsUsedArtistTurnsImaginationMistakeBrainTalentPoetPoliticianCookingFighterCooksEmpiresPrizeAssetsClevernessBuilder Author:Anne Ellis
“Isn't that what our job to do is right there in media to discuss what politicians are doing so they stop doing it.” JobsMediaPolitician Author:Eric Bolling
“I think people do look to writers to tell the truth in a way that nobody else quite will, not politicians or ministers or sociologists. A writer's job, is to, by way of fiction, somehow describe the way we live. And to me, this seems an important task, very worth doing, and I think also, to the reading public, it seems, even though they might not articulate it, it seems to them something worth doing also.” PeopleThinkingWayLooksImportantSeemsMightJobsReadingFictionPoliticianTasksMinistersTelling The TruthSociologists Author:John Updike
“The thing about Barack Obama, just from being around him, is he's cooler than the other politicians, but just nerdy enough to do the job. Like you can't be really cool and be the president.” EnoughJobsPresidentLike YouPoliticianBarackReally CoolNerdy Author:Chris Rock
“Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.” NeedsJobsWishDifficultDecisionPoliticianLuckGood LuckSchwarzeneggerUnpopular Decisions Author:Clint Eastwood