Wages Quotes

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You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was… — Dick Cheney
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both… — Susan B. Anthony
To the extent that our workers compete with low-paid Mexicans, it is as much through undocumented immigration as trade. This pattern threatens low-paid, low-skill U.S.… — William J. Clinton
We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it illegal for employers to lay… — Edward Kennedy
Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But exactly whose competitiveness… — Ronald Reagan
How can we vote for a bill [S.744] that our own CBO says will reduce average wages in America for 12 years, increase unemployment for… — Jeff Sessions
This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people… — Jeff Sessions
Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American… — Lamar S. Smith
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages. — Roger L'Estrange
Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors. If those taxes are excessive, they are reflected in idle factories, in tax-sold farms,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages. — Rebecca West
You ask whether a woman should be paid the same wages as man when she does the same work? To this, there can be but… — John Peter Altgeld
The basic goal of labor will not change. It is - as it has always been, and I am sure always will be - to… — George Meany
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… — Cesar Chavez
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging. — Martin Luther
Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge, or gives to… — Henry George
The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior… — Carlos Castaneda
Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. — Thomas Sowell

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