Minimum Wage Quotes

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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
I worked at McDonald's. I cooked. It was one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. These people earn every single penny they get. In… — Keith Ellison
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
This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and… — John Podesta
[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
When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small… — John Boehner
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
I think it is inflationary. I think it actually is counterproductive in many ways. You end up costing jobs from people who are at the… — Paul Ryan
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
We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to… — Chris Christie
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
The minimum wage has not kept pace with rising costs. This legislation is overdue and will help families that are struggling in this harsh economy. — Jerry Brown
I want people to make a lot more than $9 - $9 is not enough. The problem is you can't do that by mandating it… — Marco Rubio
[A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this… — Barack Obama
Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and… — Henry Hazlitt
This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is… — Harry S. Truman

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