John Murray Quotes

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

When thousands of men and women work full time but need food stamps to put food on their tables, when they can't get health benefits, when they can't get paid sick days, then we must do whatever we can to stand up for them.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

I am on the side of the working person across the country.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

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

We have to raise the minimum wage.

I am one of those men who believes that the best workingman ought to have the best pay.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

Hey, you got something going here. I think we've got a chance for some progressive policy that actually focuses on poor and working people.

We never accept low wages as the driving force for employment or growth.

There can be no distress, there can be no hard times, when labor is well paid. The man who raises his hand against the progress of the workingman raises his hand against prosperity.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

It is unjust to let any starve, when we think it just to limit the wages of the poor, so as they can lay up nothing against the time of their impotency and want of work.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

I'm going to lead a revolution for working people in America. This includes all workers: white, black and brown, men and women, gay and straight, urban and rural.

The truth is that we have got to make America work for working people again.