The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What happens to women happens to the entire nation. People work hard. But when you're working long hours, you don't get to… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages. — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
People understand that the economy is rigged. They're working longer hours for low wages. All new income and wealth, almost all, is… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
The size of the U.S. middle class has been shrinking. Wages have been stagnant. We don't have those factory jobs that paid… — Philip Kotler Copy Share Image
... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young… — Frances Trollope Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Democrats in Washington predicted that tax cuts would not create jobs, would not increase wages, and would cause the federal deficit to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it… — Thomas DiLorenzo Copy Share Image
Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder… — John Boehner Copy Share Image
We can't continue to look on, when there are entire sectors where there are wages that don't provide a secure livelihood. — Matthias Platzeck Copy Share Image
If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth's foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
We try to prevent the creation of artificial rents. Rather than setting up quotas to stop imports we levy a tariff, that… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot of policies that have been unfriendly to workers' wages. — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
There should be no unemployment. There is large percentage of labor now which cannot make a living because wages are not high… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
Economic growth, profitability, prosperity, jobs, increased jobs, increased wages, they're able to get that tax rate down to 15% and we're gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Social-enterprise employees earn wages and pay taxes, reducing their recidivism rates and dependence on government assistance. They also receive crucial on-the-job training,… — George R. Roberts Copy Share Image
God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages. Immigration reform should mean something else… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image