Wage Quotes

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

If a mother or a caregiver does not have a job that pays a living wage and they cannot afford child care, that is unacceptable.

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

This is a sensible response to employer concerns that the minimum wage is starting to have a damaging impact on competitiveness.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

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 neighbors can get an increase in their wages.

We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

It would help the poor people who need jobs. Minimum wage is a mandate. We're against mandates so why should we have it? It would be very beneficial.

The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.

I believe increasing minimum wage it's not just the minimum wage, it's a living wage.

Very few restaurant workers could even dream of eating in the restaurants they work in. Many do not make a living wage.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

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 would have a minimum wage for all our teachers, $40,000 per year.

An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.

No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

I want us to raise the national minimum wage, because people who live in poverty should not - who work full-time should not still be in poverty.

We should raise the national minimum wage.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

President Obama wants Congress to increase the minimum wage. Believe me, when it comes to doing the minimum for their wage, Congress knows what it's talking about.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.

You can't receive a living wage unless you work.

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.

I think the minimum wage outght to keep pace with inflation. I think the minimum wage is a good thing to have in our country and I think it ought to be updated.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

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 go up by a similar percentage.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

President [Barack] Obama - he was unsuccessful in his efforts to raise the federal minimum wage, but he still used the Labor Department in other ways to try to boost paychecks for American workers.

Fifteen dollars an hour minimum wage. That was one of the reasons why so many people flocked to Bernie Sanders candidacy.

This is the debate we have every time we talk about the minimum wage, that if we raise it even 50 cents, that it means employers are just going to shut down. It's not true.

Mike Pence, when he was in Congress, voted against raising the minimum wage above $5.15. And he has been a one-man bulwark against minimum wage increases in Indiana.

Emotional appeals about working families trying to get by on $4.25 an hour are hard to resist.

Don’t reduce your impacts to match what you earn.