Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. — Sherwood Boehlert Copy Share Image
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. — J. D. Hayworth Copy Share Image
I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none. — Kemi Badenoch Copy Share Image
Don’t let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs, — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
No business which depends for existence on paying *less than living wages* to its workers has any right to continue in this… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents,… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been… — Bill Pascrell Copy Share Image
Laws protecting this right - whatever the level of the minimum wage, and whatever the Government chooses to call it - are… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Businesses generally deal with minimum wage increases by finding efficiencies in their business practices or slightly increasing prices if they have to,… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage would be a positive step in reducing poverty, the humiliation of living in poverty, and dependence on public… — Ron Crumpton Copy Share Image
By the end of the first month of the 1995 session, each senator will have made more money than any person who… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“The inexorable rise of inequality can be countered at the top by higher taxes on the highest earners who have captured so… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
When you work extra, you should be paid extra. That's what the Fair Labor Standards Act said. And I've met so many… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“Here is what needs to be understood in our bones: the spell of neoliberalism has been broken, crushed under the weight of… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Illegal aliens are often preferred, but poor recent immigrants who do not speak English are also desirable employees. By the standards of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“And Billy, if it'll ease your mind any, I want you to know you've got a standing offer to come work for… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
“It matters whether the government blows tens of billions of dollars on tax loopholes for billionaires or whether that same money is… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
![“[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable…” quote by Nancy Pelosi](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/92b/nancy-pelosi-1267_acting_martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-us-to-c_3177348.jpg)
![“[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide…” quote by Tom Harkin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/078/tom-harkin-19587_achieve_a-s-we-celebrate-75-years-of-the-minimum_2830380.jpg)
![“I first came into the labor force in 1941 when the minimum wage was 40 cents an hour, and that was my first job. And each time that we've tried to boost the lower level of salary for the most underpaid workers, there have been predictions of catastrophe. But each time, in [m]y opinion, the change…” quote by Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/afe/jimmy-carter-479_boost_i-first-came-into-the-labor-force-in-194_1941779.jpg)
