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Wage Quotes by Barack Obama
- We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty
- I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow
- But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant…
- It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be…
- We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire…
- To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and…
- Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and…
- [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…
- It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family…
More Wage Quotes
- Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment… — Michele Bachmann
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. — William J. H. Boetcker
- We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers… — William J. H. Boetcker
- Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current… — Sherrod Brown
- The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time. — David Byrne
- It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot… — Sholom Aleichem
- You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what… — Dick Cheney
- Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for… — Alan Greenspan
- The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm
- A great country cannot wage a little war. — Duke of Wellington
- I know firsthand that many employers who comply with other labor standards still hire the undocumented. Many businesses pay the minimum wage… — Unknown Author