Judge Reinhold Quotes

In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.

Food service workers, home care workers, farm workers, and other low-wage workers log long hours. They come home tired after providing services and producing goods that make our country stronger. They deserve fair treatment from their employers, and they deserve a voice in collective bargaining.

Well, for me the canning factory was minimum wage, which at the time I believe was $3.40 or something. I was just happy to have a job.

I got a job immediately after leaving high school; I was lucky - three dollars a week and all I could eat, working on a vegetable truck.

The most that somebody in Mexico City will get paid for a job in construction is 100 pesos a day.

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!

We need to be a party saying, 'We are not going to be happy until we get those $30, $40, $50 an hour jobs back for working-class people.'

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

I can tell you what people on minimum wage want: They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.

The McJob tag is misleading, and demeaning to our staff and franchisees.

What Is a Good Job? It is a job for which the worker is qualified and for which he has been prepared. It is one which will not enslave him for life, but which shall employ him for as long a time as he needs it in order to win his own economic safety for life. It is one which will reward him lavishly — not in wages or in any form of money payments since money is far too unstable a medium for such purposes — but it shall reward him with due amounts of the actual things and services which he requires in the carrying on of his daily existence.

Policies that promote better wages and better jobs would be super-helpful, and I'm a big fan of programs that encourage people to go where jobs are.

I survived in high school by working at Kentucky Fried Chicken and made my way up to assistant manager. I was surviving high school and college with that job.

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

We must use every tool at our disposal to lift the living standards of low-wage employees.

I think I made more money when I was lifeguarding at 15 years old than I did on my first year at 'SNL.'

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

My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with overtime at the automobile plant.

I thought I was gonna be in the minimum-wage working world all my life.

Democrats should be getting high-fives from sanitation truck drivers - that is what should be happening in America.

I have a rule: I want the pilot flying me up in the air at 30,000 feet to make more than a guy working at Taco Bell.

Wal-Mart creates entry level jobs for people who don't have a lot of skills; those jobs don't pay a lot.

Government employees deserve to be treated fairly, but they do not deserve a significantly better deal than average Illinoisans get in their own jobs.