I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.

- Derek Jacobi

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

- Joseph Hume

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

- Janet Yellen

Do you have any problems, other than that you're unemployed, a moron, and a dork?

- John McEnroe

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

- Jesse Jackson

I must have had faith that day. When I went out, I was Henry Fonda again. An unemployed actor but a man.

- Henry Fonda

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

- Hunter Tylo

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.

- Gary Hume

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

- Edward Heath

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

- Emanuel Cleaver

Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.

- Andy Grove

You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.

- Dick Wolf

I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule.

- Denzel Washington

I will never be unemployed.

- Dave Ramsey

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

- Constance Wu

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

- Claire Tomalin

Why are people unemployed? Because there is no work. Why is there no work? Because people are not buying products and services. Why are people not buying products and services? Because they have no money. Why do people have no money? Because they are unemployed.

- Craig Bruce

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

- Ben Bernanke

Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.

- Adam Brody

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

- Angela Davis