Emily Thornberry Quotes

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

People can't live on $7.50 an hour.

I got as little as a $75 a week when I started.

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

The real minimum wage is zero.

No family gets rich from earning the minimum wage. In fact, the current minimum wage does not even lift a family out of poverty.

I do not support a livable wage.

No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets.

The struggle to have a living wage doesn't come easy. You're ready to work, you want it, you seek it... but it's not like it's just given to you.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

Today a minimum wage earner has to work a day and a half just to pay for a full tank of gas. That is simply shameful.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Does anyone really believe it is possible to make even the most basic ends meet on $5.15 an hour?

Thousands of Ohio families are going deeper and deeper in debt just trying to pay their heating bills, fill prescriptions, and buy groceries. The current minimum wage is simply not enough.

No woman who works full time and plays by the rules should have to raise her family in poverty.

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

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should have to live in poverty.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

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

The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

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

No one who works full time and has children should be poor in America.

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

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