Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Quotes

We need to be a party saying, 'We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.'

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.

I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

In short, avoiding the scourge of unemployment may have less to do with chasing after growth and more to do with building an economy of care, craft and culture. And in doing so, restoring the value of decent work to its rightful place at the heart of society.

We want work and we want honest jobs. Our minds and our hands will be our keep!

I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.

I believe that if we are going to create jobs in this country, then let's create jobs that will absolutely put the working-class people at work to the point where they have one job. They don't have to work three because they have to work Wendy's, McDonald's, and Walmart to survive.

I think everybody in my government now understands and appreciates that people who work in a whole variety of traditional industries across our state have good, decent jobs.

People are working hard, they're doing everything we ask of them, and they are still struggling. It's not enough to just have a job. We need to make sure that these are good-paying jobs that pay the rent and put food on the table. Jobs that have benefits like health care and that allow people to save for retirement.

Democrats may want working-class white Rust Belters to have good jobs at high wages with pensions and health benefits, but they can't make them vote that way.

Most of America doesn't pay dishwashers $10.

I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

I've earned my living in all sorts of terrible ways - as a janitor, a copy editor, a psychotherapist.

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.

My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.

We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

The physical lot of … workers had notably improved, with unemployment insurance, social security, and the new health services, while their children's school education was assured by the government-operated schools: in addition, they had, for intellectual or emotional stimulus and diversion, the radio and the television. But the work itself was no longer as various, as interesting, or as sustaining to the personality...

Either Men or Women that have a Trade, or are Labourers, can, if industrious, get near three times the Wages they commonly earn in EngIand.

We say, pay talent well and genius generously, but pay well also the arm that toils; pay the needle, the saw, the spade, the hoe, the mop.

My heart lies with the workers.

Full employment means not only jobs--but productive jobs. Americans do not regard jobs that pay substandard wages as productive jobs.

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.