"I have just explained my idea of how a constructive period of reflection, one that would send a clear message to the citizens of Europe: You should now what our priorities are. For Germany this means: Unemployment is one of one of our biggest problems"

"The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right"

"What we're talking about is the price of goods, all goods, in terms of money. That has nothing to do with unemployment, except for the fact that you get fewer goods. And when you have more money and fewer goods, the amount of dollars per good goes up. It goes up because there are fewer goods and it goes up because there is more money"

"The automatic stabilizer is unemployment insurance, food stamps, additional coverage of Medicaid"

"Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate"

"The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country"

"Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare"

"In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed"

"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders"

"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America"

"It is a fact that, if I single out Germany, our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment"