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The three most useless jobs in the world in order are: lawyer, congressman, and doctor.

- Ron Swanson

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

- Aristotle

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

- Malcolm Forbes

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

- Joan Blades

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

- William J. Brennan, Jr.

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

- Robert Brady

The Clinton administration brought 65 cases from 1995 to 2000 before the World Trade Organization. The Bush administration has brought twelve. Twelve cases. They haven't even been able to stand up for our jobs.

- Jennifer Granholm

Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.

- Charles E. Wilson

Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen.

- Stephen F. Lynch

22 million new jobs under President Clinton. 3 million lost under Bush.

- Sidney Blumenthal

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

- J. D. Hayworth

Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

- Edward G. Rendell

The defence and air defence ministers were both replaced and more than 2,000 officers lost their jobs.

- Mathias Rust

One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.

- John Kricfalusi

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

- Marilyn Hacker

When you've moved past a point where you're just scrambling for jobs, you think about the things that you want to do. And the things that you want to do are governed by what you've seen, what you choose to embrace.

- Danny Glover

Then, of course, I played alto and tenor, wherever there were jobs.

- Gerry Mulligan

I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.

- Karen McDougal

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

- Janet Napolitano

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

- David Dinkins

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as a fruit market porter in Manchester.

- John Thaw

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

- Thomas Perry

I have known lots of adults who enjoyed similar enthusiasms as a kid and weren't encouraged and then didn't go anywhere with it and so they're unhappy in their jobs as adults.

- William Joyce

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

- Rick Perry

Since President Bush took office, we have lost 3 million more good jobs.

- Marcy Kaptur

Until the Chinese decide to compete fairly it will be up to us to do what we can to further protect our manufacturing base, and ensure we keep the good paying jobs we already have.

- Mike Rogers

I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

- Jason Mewes

We've lost 3,000 jobs in Beaufort County. We've lost half of our manufacturing workforce.

- Tommy Thompson

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

- Newt Gingrich

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.

- Bill Janklow