Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result. — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Teachers say try your hardest to get a good job. When most of them have minimum wage drop out jobs. — The Awesome Quoter Truth Only Copy Share Image
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. — Norm Coleman Copy Share Image
Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only area that I would agree with minimum wage is in immigration reform, the guest worker program. — Ron Johnson Copy Share Image
We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
While Donald Trump believes in huge tax breaks for billionaires, he believes that states should actually have the right to lower the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The total amount of money that Wall Street handed out in bonuses last year was double the total income of ALL full-time… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
On my first day in office as President Quavo, I'd move my whole family into the White House. Second, I'd pull all… — Quavo Copy Share Image
The minimum wage in Denmark is about twice that of the United States, and people who are totally out of the labor… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Steve Jobs didn't seek solace among minimum wage workers. He sought it from highly educated men and women who understood and shared… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
I think that if it is.. has to do with global warming, or if it has to do with raising the minimum… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
While she [Hillary Clinton] may have a - give lip service to progressive issues, she led the charge, and there she definitely… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn't easy even in the best of… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“There is another possible demand along this line that directly undercut the economic power of the capitalists: reducing hours of labor. Hours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The NHS was hard to deliver, so was the minimum wage. It's time now - we need to have a proper conversation… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live… — Harry S. Truman 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
“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
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
“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
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
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Don’t let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs, — Hillary Clinton 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
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
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the… — Arthur Laffer Copy Share Image
I was considered the most progressive person the whole time I was in the legislature. I negotiated health care, I negotiated a… — Gretchen Whitmer Copy Share Image
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image