Wage Quotes

457 Wage quotes by 337 unique authors

How can anyone live off of minimum wage? — Tom Douglas
The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres… — Ian Mckellen
Move over, Helen of Troy; Jenny Trout is going to wage a war on good health and fit bodies! — Jennifer Armintrout
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. — Elizabeth Warren
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. — Elizabeth Warren
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. — Elizabeth Warren
Free market economists frequently see minimum wage legislation as mere political intervention. However, there are decent economic theories which show that, under certain circumstances, minimum… — Ha-Joon Chang
The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet. — Martin L. Gross
I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of… — John Sununu
We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. — Paul Hoffman
In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in… — Arthur Henderson
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big… — Douglas Reed
The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the… — John Bates Clark
The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of… — Florence Kelley
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have… — Ed Gillespie
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers… — Vernon L. Smith
We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants. — Leonard Woodcock
Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current… — Sherrod Brown
Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue. — Sherwood Boehlert
We always strive to be the best in the wage package. — James Sinegal
Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage… — Alcee Hastings
In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security. — Theodore C. Sorensen
The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of… — Arthur Laffer
I thought I was answering a question that I had heard that was about increasing the minimum wage - would I consider that. So let… — Linda McMahon

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