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"Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs."
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"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."

"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."

"The first thing the secretary types is the boss."

"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"
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"As I watch what is happening in the Middle East and the carnage that comes over our television screens every evening, I cannot help but ask myself, what is wrong with humankind that we cannot stop the killing?"

"Who owns the assets of our Nation? Increasingly, foreign interests own our assets, and we owe them money. No wonder people think our country is headed in the wrong direction. It is."

"A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class."

"I grew up in a family where our mother made our clothing. We didn't have a lot of money, so we learned how to scrimp, and we learned how to invent and to create. And those are learned skills."

"Strong efforts have been made in Ohio to curb the authoritarianism of our Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, as he has purged people from lists in our State in particular precincts where voters are heavily minority."

"People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level."

"People are rapidly losing hope and trust. They believe their government has been captured by special interests and no longer cares about them, and they are right."

"America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer."

"That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly."
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