Government We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other departments. - Alexis Herman
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future. - Alexis Herman
It is very important that our young people have constructive early work experiences. But it is equally important that their jobs are safe and complement their education, rather than complete it. - Alexis Herman
Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do. - Alexis Herman
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. - Alexis Herman
Well, I tell young people to be successful today that, first of all, that what you learn today directly impacts what you earn tomorrow. This is a knowledge-based economy. - Alexis Herman
The public sector certainly includes the Department of Labor. Those are jobs that are available. They are open and they are good paying jobs. The government as a whole has been actually retrenching under President Clinton's leadership. - Alexis Herman
I am supposed to owe the government something like $100 million. I couldn't squeeze out a dime. - Dennis Kozlowski
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government. - Joseph Story
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. - Timothy McVeigh
However, before we make the mistake of patting ourselves on the back, let's remember: government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less likely. The real credit for our economic renewal belongs to the people of Alabama . - Bob Riley