Minimum wage Quotes · Page 3

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

I’ll commit suicide before I vote on a clean minimum-wage bill,

— John Boehner

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

— Charlie Sykes

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

— Henry Rollins

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

— Bernie Sanders

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

— J. D. Hayworth

Don’t let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs,

— Hillary Clinton

I've been out of work myself and hated it. Any work, even on a minimum wage, is better than none.

— Kemi Badenoch

A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

— Milton Friedman

The problem with one single minimum wage is that you don't allow for younger people, who are less skilled and maybe more…

— Zanny Minton Beddoes

Any way you slice it, increasing the minimum wage in Michigan... is likely to make it more difficult for the working poor…

— Paul Kersey

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of…

— Robert Reich

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

I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and…

— Dennis Kucinich

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

I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic…

— Max Keiser

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

— Ralph Nader

Every single thing I've done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young…

— Barack Obama

A minimum-wage law, a law that prevents employers and employees from entering into mutually beneficial economic exchanges, is as far from a…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

[Hillary Clinton] supports now a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. Prior to that, she did not support…

— Jonathan Tasini

There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If…

— Bernie Sanders

After finishing art school I was applying to stores like Home Depot and Walmart. You know, places where you have to take…

— Marcel Dzama

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using…

— Rush Limbaugh

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will…

— Nick Hanauer

The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table.…

— Christine Pelosi

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to…

— Richard M. Nixon

If you are a Jewish Israeli, you go to Gaza, you get the villa of your life, the villa which you did…

— Uri Avnery

“The next time you drive into a Walmart parking lot, pause for a second to note that this Walmart—like the more than…

— Elizabeth Warren

On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time…

— Katrina vanden Heuvel

The backlash against women's rights would be just one of several powerful forces creating a harsh and painful climate for women at…

— Susan Faludi

“San Francisco’s battles are no longer with itself but with the outside world, as it exports the European-style social ideas that drive…

— David Talbot

“We have to examine the extent to which we export poverty to other societies. When we decide that we will import products…

— Julianne Malveaux

Growing up in rural Utah had a lot of benefits, but in an environment that prized conformity, fit wasn't one of them.…

— L. Todd Rose

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

— Barack Obama

The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program.

— Ron Johnson

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

— Nick Hanauer

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

— Anthony Bourdain

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

— Anonymous

You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

— Norm Coleman

Teachers say try your hardest to get a good job. When most of them have minimum wage drop out jobs.

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