Dannel Malloy Quotes

When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.

Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

The inequality of bargaining power between employees who do not possess full freedom of association or actual liberty of contract, and employers who are organized in the corporate or other forms of ownership association substantially burdens and affects the flow of commerce, and tends to aggravate recurrent business depressions, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners.

Donald Trump has courageously taken on the entrenched special interests who sought to suppress the working people of this country and who have sought to deny them a livable wage.

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.

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.

I believe in capitalism for everybody, not necessarily high finance but capitalism that works for the working men and women of this country who are out there paddling alone in America right now.

If we care about the average working American, then Wal-Mart matters. A lot.

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

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

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.

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

I am always astonished that conservatives want to save money by paying workers less—driving down the wages of working people.

Those politicians, professors and union bosses who curse big business are fighting for a lower standard of living.

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

My priorities are a fair trade policy in this country, increasing the minimum wage, going after the drug companies for the way that they charge and their whole pricing structure that have put absolutely amazing drugs out of reach for so many Americans.

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

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

When I travel around the country and talk about the need to raise the minimum wage or expand access to paid leave, I often talk about the need for us to reject false choices.

I know in the past Republicans have agreed to minimum-wage increases that there's built-in protections for small and midsize businesses.