Barbara Mikulski Quotes

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

The best route out of poverty, to avoid food bank usage, is to make sure more people get a job.

General well-being is incompatible with lowness of wages.

Nobody who works full time should have to live in poverty.

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.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

Those who work ought to live better than those that don't.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.

People working full time should not have to raise their children in poverty.

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

We earn enough here in Dortmund.

No person should live in poverty after a life of hard work.

The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

Everything in our lives revolves around our jobs, as much as we hate to say it. Where we live at, where our kids go to school, what we eat, what lifestyle we live, depends on the income we bring in and being able to provide for your family, and that's your employment.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

There's no future in being poor.

Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.

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.

I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.

When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.