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(Former Mayor) Coleman Young said in 1975 that the key to Detroit's future is jobs. In 2005 the key to Detroit's future is still jobs, ... The thing that keeps me up at night is, how do we partner today's kids with tomorrow's jobs?


Kwame Kilpatrick

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WALTER ISAACSON I'm not very optimistic at this point, ... The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on ou...
BUZZ HARGROVE I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsou...
BUZZ HARGROVE I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsou...
BUZZ HARGROVE But we still do our jobs. Our pride in our jobs has been hurt, but I wouldn't say that it is gone.
JOE FRIDAY The Dow [showed] some resolve. I think it [had] to do with a key report on employment that indicates...
CHARLES PAYNE The thing is that I do believe in college, and jobs, and maybe even babies one day. I believe...
JOHN GREEN Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
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DICK DEVOS I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.
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W. RICHARD STEVENS The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. The real goal is to attract business and create new high-wage, high-tech jobs here in the future. We...
TED ASTOLFI Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
CHARLES E. WILSON There are a lot of bitter people out there who have got jobs that they hate and the key to life for ...
DANNY DYER Even war can be silent
TANICA S HALL The river of knowledge has no depth.
CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we r...
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ELIZABETH BRADLEY One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
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BEN OAK Education is the key to the future.
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GINNI ROMETTY The reason they have these jobs is because other people don't want to do the jobs they do.
ROBERTO FLORES You start out with hand jobs and progress to orgies. You smoke dope and then, the big H. bigger, bet...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as you...
CHELY WRIGHT That's probably the worst thing you can do with a gun. You'd be amazed how many bluing jobs we get t...
BILLY CARTER The economy, unemployment, the future... Politicians, economists, and journalists are constantly deb...
JAMEELA JAMIL The dollar is at an all-time low, and 3 million people lost their jobs. Last month, when the adminis...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN [At 31, Mr. Kilpatrick became the youngest mayor ever elected in Detroit. Now 35, he campaigned as a...
BARRY FERGUSON We need to encourage innovative ideas that give parents better alternatives to prepare children for ...
LARRY HOGAN We want Florida to be first for jobs, and we must have a skilled workforce to reach that goal. By in...
RICK SCOTT Our ability to create jobs, our future growth, is built on the free market. It's built on open b...
MARK RUTTE The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among ...
CARL LEVIN Our focus is to, by the end of the year, place 150 people in jobs - self-sustaining jobs.
EVERETT MITCHELL Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up ...
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GORDON RAMSAY He has watched jobs and people leave. Mostly young, well educated people -- our future. But disconte...
DEVAL PATRICK If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxin...
ANNE M. MULCAHY A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies...
ROBERT DUVALL What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If everybody who was in the Forbes 400 said they were going to create 10,000 jobs, by my mathematics...
WILLIAM E. CONWAY, JR. The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to America...
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TED CRUZ The real difficulty will be creating 1,900 good jobs for workers with high school diplomas ? full-ti...
JOHN BUDD We're still waiting to see a pick-up in jobs creation.
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DON KNEZEK The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar ...
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C. JOYBELL C. The need to figure out how we can build those bridges so we can understand what's in our community, ...
WALT BLOMBERG To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... There are still some barriers to some particular jobs that are more high paying jobs like high-level...
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MYRON SCHOLES In each instance, when we were talking about this, we were told that the high-wage jobs were going t...
TIM RYAN I say let's not gamble with American jobs and America's future.
JOHN GLENN What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS The 'Star Trek' future, to me, is where we are headed. Everything is automated, and we are f...
GRAY SCOTT The overall benefit to the state in keeping manufacturing companies and jobs in Connecticut can not ...
BONNIE STEWART Some of those jobs are still going to migrate back down to Cincinnati, where Federated is located. A...
DAVE BRENNAN That's one thing I could help with ? bring jobs to the forefront. We need to continue to go to Washi...
GARRY THOMAS There is dislocation, but we are finding there are new jobs replacing the old jobs.
HARRIS MILLER That has been the story throughout 2005 -- more jobs coupled with rising unemployment, producing an ...
CARLOS CRACRAFT There are no jobs. Jobs need to be found for the young people. The cops are also too aggressive.
FRANCIS HURIER I think everyone, all of us, are complicated people. We have jobs that require us to be a certain wa...
PAUL GUILFOYLE We want to stand up for our jobs. 114 stand to lose their jobs.
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ALBERT SCHWEITZER The key to success is to get out into the store and listen to what the associates have to say.
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