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We made a demand for the the same wage rates to be paid in the Canadian plants as in the U.S. plants.
Author:
Leonard Woodcock
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Author:
Harold Wilson
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The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?
Author:
Malcolm Wallop
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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.
Author:
Marcia Wallace
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War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.
Author:
Todd Tiahrt
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
Author:
U. Thant
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I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is raised, workers are priced out of the market. That is the economic reality that seems, at least so far, to be missing from this discussion.
Author:
John Sununu
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I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.
Author:
Lawrence Summers
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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The real minimum wage is zero.
Author:
Thomas Sowell
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Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.
Author:
Theodore Sorensen
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Hopefully, 21 years later, Judge Roberts possesses an openness with respect to issues of gender-based wage discrimination.
Author:
Olympia Snowe
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
Author:
Vernon Smith
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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We always strive to be the best in the wage package.
Author:
James Sinegal
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I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.
Author:
Shakira
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When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
Author:
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Author:
Margaret Sanger
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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.
Author:
Bernie Sanders
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He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
Author:
Douglas Reed
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
Author:
Feisal Rauf
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It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
Author:
Elizabeth Phelps
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If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage a total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now.
Author:
Richard Perle
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Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.
Author:
Bill Pascrell
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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.
Author:
Bill Pascrell
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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?
Author:
Bill Pascrell
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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.
Author:
Barack Obama
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
Author:
Douglas MacArthur
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In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
Author:
John Lewis
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Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit.
Author:
John Lewis
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President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
Author:
David Letterman
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It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
Author:
Christopher Lasch
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The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level.
Author:
Christian Lange
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It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Author:
John Kennedy
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
Author:
Florence Kelley
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An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave.
Author:
Muhammad Iqbal
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The power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.
Author:
Charles Hughes
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We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.
Author:
Paul Hoffman
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The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman's aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.
Author:
Arlie Hochschild
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Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
Author:
Adolf Hitler
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There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.
Author:
Jim Hightower
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In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
Author:
Arthur Henderson
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
Author:
J. Hayworth
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Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.
Author:
Alcee Hastings
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The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.
Author:
Martin Gross
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If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.
Author:
William Greider
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
Author:
Graham Greene
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Certainly other things we can do, we gotta promote after-school employment, give kids an opportunity, raising the minimum wage was part of that, we can't expect that young people are going to feel they can make a living out there for such low wages.
Author:
Matt Gonzalez
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Author:
Ed Gillespie
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The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.
Author:
John Freeman
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By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world.
Author:
James Forrestal
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An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers.
Author:
Martin Feldstein
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Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Author:
Mark Dayton
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It has now been over 7 years since Congress last raised the minimum wage to its current level of $5.15 per hour. Since that last increase, Congress's failure to adjust the wage for inflation has reduced the purchasing power of the minimum wage to record low levels.
Author:
Jon Corzine
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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.
Author:
Jon Corzine
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You get paid more at McDonald's than you do under the existing minimum wage.
Author:
Norm Coleman
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If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
Author:
Richard Codey
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The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.
Author:
Jim Clyburn
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The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?
Author:
John Clark
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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.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.
Author:
Russ Carnahan
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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.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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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.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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The current minimum wage simply is not supporting Ohio's working families.
Author:
Sherrod Brown
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Similarly, today, we do not know what will happen as we wage the War on Terror. We do know that we can count on the strong support from our closest ally and friend in the world in winning this war to secure our freedoms and the freedoms for all peoples throughout the world.
Author:
Kit Bond
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We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
Author:
William Boetcker
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The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.
Author:
Sherwood Boehlert
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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.
Author:
Clive Bell
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It's a tragedy, but with your support and your help we will wage this fight and we're going to win it.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.
Author:
Richard Armitage
