Minimum Quotes
442 quotes by 370 authors
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The alternative minimum tax was designed to prevent the very wealthiest Americans from overusing certain tax benefits to avoid most of their tax burden.
— Richard Neal
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest…
— Bill Pascrell
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Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of…
— Christina Romer
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Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than…
— Christina Romer
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If negative auric vibrations are not kept to a minimum by using psychic shielding techniques, and if they aren't cleansed from our subtle body through…
— Frederick Lenz
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I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly…
— Rachael Taylor
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The internal and external ethics of an organization must be the same; you cannot talk about minimum wages for poor people and not pay minimum…
— Aruna Roy
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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried…
— Claude M. Bristol
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In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying,…
— Anthony Zinni
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Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage.
— Carl Bernstein
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What you learn in school is the opposite of what happens in the real world. In school, you're always worried about minimums. You have to…
— Guy Kawasaki
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The conditions which now exist in Germany make it impossible for industrial production to reach the levels which the occupying powers agreed were essential for…
— James F. Byrnes
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National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have…
— Kofi Annan
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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last…
— Jon Corzine
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No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.
— Jon Corzine
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You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
— Norm Coleman
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6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
— Russ Carnahan
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Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
— Russ Carnahan
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Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping…
— Mark Dayton
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The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to…
— Vito Fossella
Who Wrote These Minimum Quotes
370 authors contributed a total of 442 Minimum Quotes, led by these top contributors: