The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it… — John Raese Copy Share Image
The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty and therefore its inability to mobilize out of its own resources even… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
No evidence compels the conclusion that the minimum required intake of any vitamin comes close to the optimum intake that sustains good… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and… — Steve Finley Copy Share Image
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last… — Richard Neal Copy Share Image
Hedge funds try to produce above-average investment returns using tactics ranging from traditional stock-picking to complex derivative and arbitrage plays. High minimum… — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11… — Holly Sklar Copy Share Image
Achieving Champions League football is the minimum requirement and always the most important thing for [Dortmund Borussia] club. Beyond that, we want… — Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Copy Share Image
Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and… — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The minimum wage isn't earned only by people working at fast food restaurants and in service industry work - the average income… — David Rolf Copy Share Image
Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
To work effectively you need uninterrupted blocks of time in which you can complete meaningful work... I've found that a minimum of… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current… — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I go by the "Miles Davis school of production and band-leading", where you pick the best musicians you can, you provide them… — Jose James Copy Share Image
I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians… — Itay Talgam Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage is very efficient. Everybody's on the same playing field, it's a very simple rule, it doesn't require a… — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
I heard Russell Simmons say that, 'people have million dollar dreams with a minimum wage work ethic.' Basically, everybody wanna be rich… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
The ones who were negotiating are now on the front line of this intifada, because they found that the negotiations didn't give… — Hassan Nasrallah Copy Share Image
What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing. — Sherrod Brown Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
The main goal in any criminal statute is to produce what's best for the victim. And sometimes, a mandatory minimum doesn't accomplish… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy… — Michael Oren Copy Share Image
The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and… — Aruna Roy Copy Share Image