Administration jobs are a way of rewarding campaign workers and, in more recent years, people who raise a lot of money. All presidents appoint cronies. The difference is that not all of them are publicly exposed the way Michael Brown was.

People grumble about Hispanic employees being here, but they're the only workers we can get. They take jobs that no one in this country wants.

We can create many local jobs if all retailers were to take advantage of local capacity. We have willing workers and idle industrial capacity.

Laying-off permanent workers is so difficult and costly that companies have a strong preference for temp jobs, even if it is at the expense of productivity. When labor protection has become excessive and unaffordable, as it is in France, labor market institutions must be reformed.

We obviously need the workers for a lot of jobs.

These tax-cut proposals are especially encouraging. Cutting taxes on workers and businesses creates jobs.