Hillary Clinton Quotes

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

What we need to do is raise the minimum wage. We also need to hold onto equal pay. Women work for 76 cents on the dollar for the same work that men do. That's not right in America.

As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the minimum wage and ensure women are paid equally for equal work.

I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man's work for less than a man's pay.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

I've tried to give a dollar and 25 cents in work for every dollar paid me.

Pay equity matters because those dollars add up over time.

We will always be a fair wage nation in a low wage region.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

At a time when families are incredibly squeezed, it's essential that we provide a living wage for people who work hard and that women realize equal pay for the work they're doing.

We have to make the economy fairer. That starts with raising the national minimum wage and also guarantee, finally, equal pay for women's work.

We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

If women are given equal pay for Civil Service jobs, maybe other employers will do the same.

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

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.