Nancy Pelosi Quotes

We have to raise the minimum wage.

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

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

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

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.

President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.

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

It is time this Congress listened to the American people and minimum-wage workers, and it is time that we act.

If Donald Trump wants to raise the minimum wage to $15, yes, I will work with Donald Trump.

The minimum wage should be a living wage.

I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.

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

6.6 million people will benefit from a rise 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.

There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

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

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

One of the biggest disagreements between Sen. Hagan and I - I don't believe we should be building an economy that's founded on making ends meet on minimum wage. It's impossible; it's a stepping stone.

Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.

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

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

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.