Minimum Quotes - Page 6

• The average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.

  Sherrod Brown

  Struggle, Average, Income

  9 Copy quote

• As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

  Isabel Paterson

  Government, Oppression, Being The Best

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.69, Transaction Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unity is plural and, at a minimum, is two.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Two, Unity, Chaos

  R. Buckminster Fuller “Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our five senses evolved for survivability, and probably are the minimum necessary for our survival. There is so much of the universe which we cannot and do not see... We do now know from instrumentation developed just in the last fifty years more about some of what's out there in the universe.

  Mary Davis

  Years, Survival, Five Senses

  4 Copy quote

• I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Writing, Management Skills

  10 Copy quote

• At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

  Erik Qualman

  Technology, Thinking, Media

  4 Copy quote

• Free sexual intercourse between young males and respectable girls" was urgently necessary or society was "doomed to fall a victim to incurable neuroses which reduce the enjoyment of life to a minimum, destroy the marriage relation and bring hereditary ruin on the whole coming generation.

  Sigmund Freud

  Family, Girl, Fall

  4 Copy quote

• The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility, in establishing a national minimum it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than the minimum for himself and his family.

  William Beveridge

  Encouragement, Responsibility, Opportunity

  "The Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge, www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. November 1942.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Inspiring, Giving, Minimum Wage

  6 Copy quote

• Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Impact, Order, Gauges

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1973".

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ruminants are a perfectly normal thing to possess when you live in upstate New York. It's just moving scenery. It's kind of like the equivalent of Great Danes. It's the way you keep your grass mowed. It's the way you keep your weed-whacking to a minimum.

  Vera Farmiga

  Weed, New York, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

  Harry S. Truman

  Law, Justice, Important

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet it ought to be clear that a minimum wage law is, at best, a limited weapon for combatting the evil of low wages, and that the possible good to be achieved by such a law can exceed the possible harm only in proportion as its aims are mode.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Numbers, Evil

  "Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics".

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour.

  Barack Obama

  Kids, Two, Should Have

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

  Barbara Boxer

  Moving, Differences, Political

  "Boxer pushes $10 minimum wage" by Breanna Edwards, www.politico.com. August 26, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

  Albert Low

  Truth, Numbers, Simplicity

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Raising minimum wage doesn't just benefit the workers behind me, it creates a proven ripple effect that increases wages all the way up the scale. ... Let's get the facts straight, only 20 percent of people making the minimum wage are teenagers. The rest are hardworking adults, many of them with families, and I mean hardworking.

  Joe Biden

  Teenager, Mean, People

  4 Copy quote

• [A]s we celebrate 75 years of the minimum wage, we must also recognize that it is no longer achieving its potential impact in our economy or for America's working families. Every American deserves the chance to build a better life for his or her family - and raising the minimum wage will provide that opportunity.

  Tom Harkin

  Opportunity, America, Impact

  "Raise the minimum wage" by Tom Harkin, www.politico.com. June 24, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.

  Richard Trumka

  Erosion, America, Political

  "$7.25 an hour is not a living wage" by Richard Trumka and Christine Owens, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2013.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• We have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage has little or no adverse effect on employment while significantly increasing workers' earnings.

  Paul Krugman

  Hiking, Adverse Effects, Political

  "Better Pay Now" by Paul Krugman, www.nytimes.com. December 01, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.

  Kevin Madden

  Moving, Opportunity, Skills

  4 Copy quote

• By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00.

  Lawrence Reed

  Ideas, People, Employers

  4 Copy quote

• Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

  Murray Rothbard

  Law, Doe, Unemployment

  "For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto".

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Thinking, House, Needs

  5 Copy quote

• In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Dancer, Tables, Globalization

  57 Copy quote