We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation.
Denis Healey 20/10/1976
Category: Inflation, Unemployment
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job. It's a depression when you lose your own.
Harry Truman
Category: Unemployment
Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.
Ellen Wilkinson
Category: Unemployment
You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.
Michael Foot
Category: Unemployment, Wages & Income
The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.
Lord Beaverbrook
Category: Unemployment
It would be wrong to suppose that a higher level of mobility would lead to a major reduction in unemployment.
Lord Young of Graffham 08/11/1986
Category: Unemployment
He didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking until he found it.
Norman Tebbit 15/10/1981
On his father
Category: Unemployment
The high level of unemployment is evidence of the progress we are making.
Nicholas Ridley 26/01/1981
Category: Unemployment
There is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment.
Margaret Thatcher 19/04/1979
Category: Unemployment
Yes, I can give you exaqmples of companies where employees have struck themselve out of jobs. And I have to say tothem, don't blame your unemployment on me. It's your fault.
Margaret Thatcher 05/05/1981
Category: Unemployment, Strikes
I couldn't live without work. That's what makes me so sympathetic towards those people who are unemployed. I don't know how they live without working.
Margaret Thatcher 04/05/1980
Category: Unemployment
