Any degree of unemployment worries me.

Indeed, the creators of the euro envisioned it as an instrument to promote political union.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

If I correctly understand the goal of American policy, one wishes Russia to be a partner.

Germany is very free-trade oriented.

This question about Iraq has gotten personal.

Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

As far as missile defense is concerned, a very thorough consultation process is underway.

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.

As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

I mean, the reality is unemployment today - over 14 million Americans are unemployed. That's exactly what it was a year ago. I mean, this - the American people know we can't borrow and spend and bail our way back to a growing economy.

I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

I think it's hard to know. Feeling fulfilled, because actors face periods of unemployment, there is nothing worse than being at the top of your game; you have so much to give but do not have the platform to do this.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

Since 1957, black people have experienced double-digit unemployment - in good times and bad times. Look at the population of African Americans in prison. They represent more than half the population of prisoners in the country, 55 percent of those on death row.

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues.

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.

Outsourcing and globalization of manufacturing allows companies to reduce costs, benefits consumers with lower cost goods and services, causes economic expansion that reduces unemployment, and increases productivity and job creation.

They keep extending these unemployment benefits to the point where people are afraid to go out and get a job, because the job doesn't pay as much as the unemployment benefit does.

It has to be because unemployment problems in northwest Indiana are similar to those in southeast Chicago.

I define genuine full employment as a situation where there are at least as many job openings as there are persons seeking employment, probably calling for a rate of unemployment, as currently measured, of between 1 and 2 percent.

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

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

If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics.

And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid.

All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

Well, our economy is very strong and growing. We have created 5.4 million new jobs in the last 3 years. Our unemployment rate is better than the average unemployment rate of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

There's no unemployment in squatter cities. Everyone works. One-sixth of humanity is there. It's soon going to be more than that.