Minimum Quotes

• The real minimum wage is zero.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Real, Minimum Wage

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.55, Hoover Press

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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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• Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Stuff, Way

  "Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush’s Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 24, 2007.

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• Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

  Sherrod Brown

  Ohio, Two, Minimum Wage

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• I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Want, Information, Given

  "A Hero for Our Time". Book by Ralph G Martin, 1983.

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• They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Issues, Different, Lifestyle

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• 6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

  Russ Carnahan

  People, Minimum Wage, Benefits

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• Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

  Sherrod Brown

  Mean, Ohio, News

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• I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

  Ed O'Neill

  Girl, Sports, Football

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• Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.

  Russ Carnahan

  Years, Minimum Wage, Levels

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• Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Pain, Writing, Important

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.

  Norm Coleman

  Mcdonalds, Wages, Minimum Wage

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• No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

  Jon Corzine

  Facts, Doe, Minimum Wage

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• National markets are held together by shared values and confidence in certain minimum standards. But in the new global market, people do not yet have that confidence.

  Kofi Annan

  People, Together, Standards

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Children, Minimum Wage, Lines

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• A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Average, Class, Minimum Wage

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• Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Men, Racism, Hatred

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.86, Macmillan

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, School, Democracy

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

  Andy Grove

  Technology, Law, Lines

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• I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

  Anita Baker

  Small Numbers, People, Trying

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• Anyone who's tried to pay a heating bill, fill a prescription, or simply buy groceries knows all too well that the current minimum wage does not cut the mustard.

  Sherrod Brown

  Cutting, Doe, Minimum Wage

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• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughing, Comedian, Fifteen

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Bill Pascrell

  Leadership, Years, House

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• I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

  Quentin Crisp

  People, Involvement, Crisps

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• For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

  Leonhard Euler

  Education, Wise, Perfect

  Leonhard Euler, C. Truesdell (1980). “The Rational Mechanics of Flexible Or Elastic Bodies 1638 - 1788: Introduction to Vol. X and XI”, p.200, Springer Science & Business Media

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