Anthony Bourdain Quotes

The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.

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

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.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

Every worker needs a decent and legal source of income.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

This [minimum wage] legislation, passed by the 81st Congress at its first session, is an important addition to the laws we live by. It is a measure dictated by social justice. It adds to our economic strength. It is founded on the belief that full human dignity requires at least a minimum level of economic sufficiency and security.

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

There is nothing but a lack of social vision to prevent us from paying an adequate wage to every American citizen whether he be a hospital worker, laundry worker, maid or day laborer

To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government.

There are people who would like to get rid of minimum wage. But we have to have it, because if we didn't some people would not get paid money. They would work all week for two loaves of bread and some Spam.

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

The owners have the right to pay you whatever they want to. They don't have to pay you if they don't want to.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

I would love to see McDonald's pay more money.

You should pay the laborer his wages before his sweat dries

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage earner.

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.

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.

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

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

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.

I am totally in line with the fact that I think wealth distribution for carmakers needs to be redimensioned to allow labor to take a piece of that wealth distribution.

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