John Maynard Keynes Quotes

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

When they seek to cut programs that help families living in poverty, I will fight them every step of the way.

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

The prince should try to prevent too great an inequality of wealth .... prevent the wealth of the multitude from being hoarded by a few.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Income inequality is the central problem all the way across the world.

Instead of favoring the wealthy, Civil Government ought carefully to protect the poor laborious and industrious Part of Mankind.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

We need to create an economy that works for everyone, not crony capitalism and unchecked corporate consolidation.

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

Everybody is entitled to solid living wages, which we don't hear from Hillary Clinton. She's quick to talk about parity, but parity at poverty, and that's not adequate.

I've been very outspoken that the minimum wage needs to rise.

Obviously, I know there are players here who earn more than twice what I do. But that's not the issue for me.

I got paid the same as my male counterpart grad students and onward.

There is no question that we, as a country, need to deal with economic inequality across the country, and we need to make sure we have good-paying jobs for everyone.

I fall into the camp that income inequality is the biggest problem we face.

Pay disparity has always been there.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

Being underpaid once shouldn't condemn you to a lifetime of inequality.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.