Martin O'Malley Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

American workers deserve a raise. I fully support the push for $15 an hour and a union. We also must raise wages for low and middle income families.

I believe in $15 as a minimum wage.

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.

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.

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

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

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

I think that people need a livable wage.

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.

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

I think we should increase the minimum wage and I think $15 is a good beginning.

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.

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.