[Donald Trump] said it's against affordable health care for poor people and will not fight to raise wages for working poor people,… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is… — Timothy J. Bartik Copy Share Image
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
We must protect the civil rights of American citizens - African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and all Americans - by ensuring that their jobs,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last… — William Feather Copy Share Image
A core part of the global market is what might be called the 'Nike Economy' - footloose companies that play countries against… — John J. Sweeney Copy Share Image
[I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
In my Inaugural I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Teddy Kennedy's big new idea is to wheel out his 18th proposal to raise the minimum wage. He's been doing this since… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The Reichswirtschaftsministerium ('Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs') tells the shop managers what and how to produce, at what prices and from whom… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Jesus said when the woman poured the alabaster bottle of perfume on him that was worth almost a year's wages, and Judas,… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
In my view, this is not extremism on the left. This is what the American people support in poll after poll. Support… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Many Americans are feeling, you know, shut out, shut down, the great recession hasn't ended for too many Americans, wages are flat,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
With stagnant hourly wages, the only way for working families to get ahead is by working more hours, ... certainly not the… — Jared Bernstein Copy Share Image
Any reasonable economist will tell you that it's nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state's job growth.… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average.… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Government policies try to prevent the emergence of serious unemployment by credit expansion, i.e., inflation. The outcome was rising prices, renewed demands… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“The wages of sin is Death.” Gotcha! The wages of everything is Death! This is a Communist universe, the amount you work… — Scott Alexander Copy Share Image
We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it… — Mo Brooks Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about… — John Howard Copy Share Image
Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do -… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Germany cannot get out of the euro. What it has to do, therefore, is make the economy more flexible - to eliminate… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
At the peak of the so-called great success of neoliberal economics, in 2007, right before the crash, non-supervisory workers were at wages… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
President Kennedy understood the importance of equal pay for equal work and signed historic legislation that gave women around the country hope… — Rosa DeLauro Copy Share Image
The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It is not by the absolute quantity of produce obtained by either class, that we can correctly judge of the rate of… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages… — Alex Tabarrok Copy Share Image
We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them… — Allen West Copy Share Image
Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Workers who come to the U.S. see their wages and their standard of living boosted sharply simply by crossing the border. That's… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think that wealthy white people would like to have a country that resembles the Fifties, when all the minorities were tucked… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won't ask for wages, they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I concluded that the trade agreements weren't working as promised, and was depreciating the wages and the manufacturing base, and the jobs… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Private property works like circuitry in electronics, or piping in hydraulics. It conveys wages to the owners of labor power, as well… — Louis O. Kelso Copy Share Image