Wage Quotes · Page 3

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

— James Sinegal

I have never said I was against raising the minimum wage.

— Dan Donovan

The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.

— Sherrod Brown

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

— Bruce Rauner

An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Sherrod Brown

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

— Robert J. Garagiola

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

— Kathy Szeliga

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

— Greg Gianforte

I don't see the minimum wage as a fight between capital and labor, between persistent small businesses and diligent employees. I think…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

The union miner cannot agree to the acceptance of a wage principle which will permit his annual earnings and his living standards…

— John L. Lewis

Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new…

— Bill Keller

One of the great constraints on economic growth and employment is that the tax and benefits system has grown up over generations…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

“If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What good does it do a black youth to know that an employer must pay him $2 an hour if the fact…

— Paul Samuelson

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying enough to keep families…

— Barbara Mikulski

I grew up working for the minimum wage at Hardee's and knows first hand how important the minimum wage is. I support…

— Joni Ernst

“Lamar Alexander, the senator from Tennessee and the most senior Republican on the committee, was asking his last questions when a witness…

— Elizabeth Warren

I think people are fed up with struggling to make ends meet. It's so easy to find yourself in a position of…

— Stephanie Land

“when there are a lot of people willing and able to do a job, that job generally doesn’t pay well. This is…

— Steven D. Levitt

“We’re taught to think of the minimum wage as a mechanism for helping people earn more. What it actually does is prevent…

— Don Watkins

Raising the minimum wage represents a substantial financial burden for employers, particularly start-ups, early stage companies, and family-owned businesses. In response, business…

— Fabrizio Moreira

I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an…

— Bernie Sanders

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

“The first thing that happens, for example, when a law is passed that no one shall be paid less than $106 for…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

— Sherrod Brown

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

— Patrick deWitt

I'm not going to raise taxes; I'm not going to have a wage increase for public employees.

— Andrew Cuomo

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

— Kathy Szeliga

The first to come and the last to go, working for that minimum wage.

— Jackson Browne

By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and fall in money supply.

— Max Keiser

Let's invest in our local schools to make sure that teachers have a livable wage.

— Miguel Cardona

Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies!

— Jennifer Armintrout

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

We need to do everything possible in order to realize wage increases.

— Fumio Kishida

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

— Phil Murphy

Spiritual warfare is the unseen battle God wages on your behalf.

— Jim George

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

— Anonymous

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

— Ralph Nader