Minimum Quotes

442 quotes by 370 authors

House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do… — Bill Pascrell
Male chauvinism is . . . a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation. — Michael Korda
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree of consciousness, the… — Soren Kierkegaard
Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio. — Sherrod Brown
To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply… — Ezra Jack Keats
The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people. — Mitch McConnell
As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression. — Isabel Paterson
I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a… — Robert Kiyosaki
I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our… — Bernie Sanders
The last thing we need to do, relating to teachers, is the key to a good education in this country is a strong teacher. I… — Bill Richardson
I live in the same house I purchased in 1971 for $22,500. I think we need to increase the minimum wage and so all my… — Dennis Kucinich
By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem… — Lawrence Reed
Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce… — Kevin Madden
I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of… — Robert Gibbs
[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage… — Paul Krugman
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of… — Richard Trumka
[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by… — Nancy Pelosi
[A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy… — Tom Harkin
Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale.… — Joe Biden
The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of… — Barbara Boxer

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