Matteo Salvini Quotes

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

The French 35 hour work week is a bribe given to the French people by a grateful government

Juridically they are equal; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist … The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer.

The dearest interests of the Southern states are involved in the adoption of measures for the support and encouragement of free laboring whites.

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters [employers] and their workmen, its counselors [members of the legislature] are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.

Thankfully, President Trump has made clear: The regulatory assault on American workers is over.

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as a radical intrusion into the marketplace and was described as 'socialist.'

It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.

We will open a new bunch of reforms regarding the labor market to make it simpler and adaptable, more flexible.

I'm a progressive who knows how to talk to working-class people, and I know how to get elected in working-class districts. Because at the end of the day, the progressive agenda is what's best for working families.

The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers.

If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of economic harmony into a justification for supporting industrialists, who were the nation's job creators.

We need workfare over welfare.

I completely disagree with Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute on the need for dignity in the marketplace instead of the social safety net, but he is a very persuasive character.

Unfortunately, we have to dial down low-skilled immigration. We have to recognize that there is more unemployment among the lesser-skilled workers than among the most-skilled workers.

When working men and women have secure jobs with living wages and social protection, they can invest in the economy at levels which will increase demand and help overcome the twin challenges of ageing populations and economic stagnation.

In terms of emerging economies, we absolutely believe that the prescription is social protection and a minimum wage on which people can live.

When minimum living wages, bargaining for fair wages, pensions, and job security are denied in too many countries, it is not rocket science to understand the drivers of inequality.

The hard-working Americans, the people who made this country so great, they've been left in the dust.

I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.

Class warfare has never created a job.