Marco Rubio Quotes

I'm not sure there's another way to help move more people out of poverty than to raise the minimum wage.

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

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

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

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

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

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

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

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

Raising the minimum wage does not take from growth, it adds to growth.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases 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.

The minimum wage was enacted in 1937 during the Great Depression and it has been increased 16 times. It's a well-established economic policy to help families.

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

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.

To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's time to raise the minimum wage.

Instead of raising the minimum wage, let's lower taxes for the working poor.

I'm more concerned about maximum wages, not minimum wages.

Our minimum wage is too low. So we need to raise it.

I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

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

Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue.