Dennis Kucinich Quotes

The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.

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.

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

I think, in this country, if you work 40 hours a week, and you work hard, you ought to be able to afford an apartment somewhere.

I think that people need a livable 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.

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

I think the right-wingers have to buddy up to the fact that either the minimum wage has to go up, and people get enough money to live, or you're always going to have people needing government assistance. You can't have it both ways.

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

I think the minimum wage ought to keep pace with inflation.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

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

We have to raise the minimum wage.

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise in the minimum wage.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

When I started in the business, the minimum wage was $1.25. I've seen an enormous number of wage increases. Basically, it applies evenly to everyone in the business.

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserve a raise.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.

If you work, you should not be poor.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

People against the minimum wage say that many workers will lose their jobs. I haven’t ever met a minimum wage worker who didn’t say “Go for it!”