John Boehner Quotes

When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

Literally, if we took away the minimum wage - if conceivably it was gone - we could potentially virtually wipe out unemployment completely because we would be able to offer jobs at whatever level.

We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

The Obama administration is not helping small businesses create jobs. In fact, it is responsible for the regulatory uncertainty nearly 50 percent of small-business owners cite as responsible for their lack of hiring.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs.

Don't let anybody tell you that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs.

Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program

So what are the effects of increasing minimum wages? Any Econ 101 student can tell you the answer: The higher wage reduces the quantity of labor demanded, and hence leads to unemployment.

The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn't do a thing for them.

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

President Bush is now focusing on jobs. I think the one job he's focusing most on is his own. The White House is now backtracking from its prediction that 2.6 million new jobs will be created in the U.S. this year. They say they were off by roughly 2.6 million jobs.

Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker's employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.

The most important social welfare program in America is a job.

The real minimum wage is zero.

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

We are a long way from getting back the jobs lost since President Bush took office.

Obama is a president, who I think is anti-jobs.

If there's unemployment, having the government help reduce that unemployment, increase employment directly is a pretty good idea. It's not driving out competition; it's not crowding out.

The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.