All Quotes

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
‐‐ Gunter Grass

The job of a journalist is to find out stuff. The job of the government - sometimes - is to keep stuff secret. There's a natural tension there.
‐‐ Alex Gibney

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.
‐‐ Chris Christie

The job of an actor is the same in all of them, really. I mean, you're just creating a character that you hope people will believe, so it doesn't make that much of a difference really.
‐‐ Rosamund Pike

The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
‐‐ Earl Weaver

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
‐‐ Bono

The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

The job of elected officials is to answer to the people who sent them to Washington - not to scorn them, not to demean them, not to mock them, and not to sell their jobs and dreams to the highest bidder.
‐‐ Jeff Sessions

The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
‐‐ Lamar Alexander

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
‐‐ Boris Johnson

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.
‐‐ Vicente Fox

The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.
‐‐ Chung Mong-joon

The job of singing is to stay open to the river of soul in all its manifestations, the dark and the light, without letting your ego get in the way. I never want to be bigger than the song. I just want you to receive it.
‐‐ Jennifer Warnes

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

The job of the Attorney General is very specific. My roll, as the legal adviser, is to defend the constitutionality of the laws as they're passed.
‐‐ Jeffrey Chiesa

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
‐‐ Alice Rivlin

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.
‐‐ Joel Sternfeld

The job of the government - and my responsibility - is to help people live healthier lives. The framework is about giving local authorities the ability to focus on the most effective ways to improve the public's health and reduce health inequalities, long-term, from cradle to grave.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

The job of the government isn't to go around and try and make people sacrifice, it's to try and make people free. The reason why we have a national defense is to protect our freedoms.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.
‐‐ Phil Schiller

The job of the novelist is to invent: to embroider, to color, to embellish, to make things up.
‐‐ Donna Tartt

The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'
‐‐ Saul Alinsky

The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.
‐‐ Mark Van Doren

The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

The job of the press is to speak truth to power. And yet, for doing our job, we are persecuted. I say that these aggressive and illegal tactics to silence us - inventing arbitrary legal interpretations, over-zealous charges and disproportionate sentences - must not be permitted to succeed.
‐‐ Sara Harrison

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
‐‐ Barry Eisler

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
‐‐ Paul Theroux

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.
‐‐ Colum McCann

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.
‐‐ Toni Cade Bambara

The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.
‐‐ John Boehner

The job of uncovering the global food waste scandal started for me when I was 15 years old. I bought some pigs. I was living in Sussex. And I started to feed them in the most traditional and environmentally friendly way. I went to my school kitchen, and I said, 'Give me the scraps that my school friends have turned their noses up at.'
‐‐ Tristram Stuart

The JOBS Act is the 'topic of the moment.'
‐‐ Jerry Moran

The JOBS Act will allow entrepreneurs to utilize 'crowdfunding,' which permits them to raise equity capital from a large pool of small investors.
‐‐ Sam Graves

The jobs aren't going away. They're bringing in people to replace Americans in those jobs. And this Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, it makes it worse.
‐‐ Paul Nehlen

The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.
‐‐ John Garamendi

The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
‐‐ Mia Wasikowska

The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn't very good. And it's really about young people.
‐‐ Rick Santelli

The jocks that used to stuff me into a locker when I was a punk rocker are my best buddies now.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.
‐‐ Donald E. Graham

The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
‐‐ Karl Philipp Moritz

The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track.
‐‐ Edwin Moses

The joke about SAP has always been, it's making '50s German manufacturing methodology, implemented in 1960s software technology, delivered to 1970-style manufacturing organizations, like, it's really - yeah, the incumbency - they are still the lingering hangover from the dot-com crash.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.
‐‐ Cory Booker

The joke I wanted to put into one of the promos for this new season, was to have a guy come up to me and say, Hey! Tony! I love your show, I've watched you every night since you started! And then I'd say, Ah! You're the one!
‐‐ Tony Danza

The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with £10m.'
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
‐‐ Ron Reagan