Wage Quotes · Page 3

I've only had minimum wage jobs or directed movies.

— Ti West

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

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

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

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

— Henry Rollins

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

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

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage…

— Thomas Piketty

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 am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre…

— Kabir Bedi

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's…

— Debra Granik

Walmart is so huge that a wage boost at Walmart would ripple through the entire economy, putting more money in the pockets…

— Robert Reich

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

When mothers earn their fair share, young children have greater access to quality health care, educational opportunities, and safe communities. By ending…

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance…

— Anonymous

It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour.…

— Jon Corzine

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone…

— Judith Butler

Despite the hype, Equal Pay Day is, at best, a simplistic understanding of the factors that create wage differences. At worst, it's…

— Mary Katharine Ham

Bernie Sanders did not wake up last night with this great idea that we should guarantee health care to all people as…

— Bernie Sanders

I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great…

— Bernie Sanders

All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate…

— Doug Casey

I spent almost all my life in poverty, raised by a single mother who had to raise three children on minimum wage,…

— Ritchie Torres

Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is…

— Sara Sheridan

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

Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result.

— Murray Rothbard

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

— John Hickenlooper

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.

— Sherwood Boehlert

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

— Alison Lundergan Grimes

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

— Sherrod Brown

Even if we raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, it's still hard to prosper on that wage.

— Greg Gianforte

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

— Patrick deWitt

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

— Robert J. Garagiola

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

— Sherrod Brown

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

— Kathy Szeliga

For many young people, the minimum wage is a stepping stone to higher employment levels.

— Bruce Rauner