Quotes by Minimum Wage I believe increasing minimum wage it`s not just the minimum wage, it`s a living wage. Alison Lundergan Grimes living-wage minimum-wage believe If you want to be backed by corporations so that you're elected mayor, then it's going to be very problematic for you to support a living wage campaign that would shift the minimum wage to something else. Amber Hollibaugh minimum-wage support campaigns I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning. Anthony Bourdain minimum-wage increase thinking 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 I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness. Barack Obama minimum-wage income sitting We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty Barack Obama minimum-wage poverty money I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty Barbara Mikulski minimum-wage jobs country No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage. Benjamin Jealous minimum-wage persons dream A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it. Bernie Sanders minimum-wage poverty jobs I want to applaud those workers rallying to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour. I believe strongly that a great nation will not survive when so few have so much and so many have so little. Every worker in America should be given respect, dignity and the wages and benefits they need to take care of their family. Bernie Sanders minimum-wage believe america I have not heard almost anybody suggest that raising the minimum wage to the level we have in Vermont has been an impediment to our economy which is doing reasonably well ... If somebody is going to work that person has got to receive at least a wage that they can go out and live with dignity on. That's an extremely important point. Bernie Sanders minimum-wage levels important At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line. Bernie Sanders minimum-wage lines children The American people want to raise the minimum wage. Every poll tells us that. That bill will not get to the floor of the Senate. The American people want to ask the rich to pay more in taxes. But the legislation that will get to the floor is tax breaks for billionaires. Bernie Sanders minimum-wage want people Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful. Bill Pascrell minimum-wage tanks half I remember the $0.05 hamburger and a $0.40-per-hour minimum wage, so I've seen a tremendous amount of inflation in my lifetime. Did it ruin the investment climate? I think not. Charlie Munger minimum-wage climate thinking No parent at home is saying my gosh, if we can just get a higher minimum wage, all of our aspirations have been realized. Chris Christie minimum-wage parent home 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. Christina Romer minimum-wage unions president Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little. Christina Romer minimum-wage hard-work littles The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box. Christine Pelosi minimum-wage democracy lying Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer. Dan Aykroyd minimum-wage minimum money 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. David Rolf minimum-wage support political 123456»