Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

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
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
You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage. — Norm Coleman
6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage. — Russ Carnahan
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
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax. — David Dewhurst
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
We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage. — Iris DeMent
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses. — J D Hayworth
No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. — Benjamin Jealous
I know how to create and make people feel something. Honestly, if I didn't do this, I would just have some minimum-wage job in New… — Freddie Prinze Jr
The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to… — James Morcan
You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of… — Henry Hazlitt
Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage… — Oswald Spengler
Firms don't just try to pay as little as possible to get the needed bodies on board; when there is unemployment, they ask themselves how… — Janet Yellen
Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries… — Neal Boortz
For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to… — Seth Rogen
When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for teachers of a… — John Katzman
All too much of the wage structure has been based on the time workers put in, rather than upon the product put out. The consumer… — Wheeler McMillen
The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears. — Derek R. Audette
No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the… — Chris Christie
I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether… — Lindsey Graham
I think we do not need to send more jobs to low wage countries. I think corporate America has to start investing in this country… — Hillary Clinton
I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels. — William J. Clinton
predicament, n. The wage of consistency. — Ambrose Bierce

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