Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marsha Blackburn

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.

Art Pulaski

We don't want more short-term, politically expedient solutions. We must increase and index the minimum wage so that our lowest wage earners can retain their purchasing power.

Karl Shapiro

But this invites the occult mind, Cancels our physics with a sneer, And spatters all we knew of denouement,Across the expedient and wicked stones.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Troy Newman

The president seems to do what is politically expedient, versus what is morally correct. Therefore, if we make it politically expedient for him to do the moral thing, that's what he'll do.

Don Cherry

We always trained together because the training is so intense, ... Hindsight is 20-20 - maybe that wasn't the expedient thing for me to do. I thought I was doing a good thing, offering my services.

Vivek Wadhwa

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

Bertrand Russell

Every increase in knowledge requires an increase in wisdom

Sam Pitroda

We need to increase that number to 25 percent.

Chen Geng

We will see a substantial increase (in the overseas production) by 2010.

Eunice Foster

We're working to recruit. We're working to increase the number of students that are in our college, period.

Aaron Adams

We're very proud of what's taking place in Old Town. We've seen a big increase in traffic there with all the new shops.

Derek Hall

UVSC is now the third largest institution in the state, and this survey shows that our support and perceptions have increased over the past two years,

Roy Barnes

As the population of Georgia increased dramatically, so did development.

Stephany Smith

I think it will increase the noise because people are outside smoking and talking.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

David Tronson

Most Americans spend more than they usually have, which is why we have the lowest savings rate in the world.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

Leslie Cockburn

When I was in London at NBC, I was the lowest man on the totem pole. I would go to diplomatic receptions to meet people.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

Thomas Sugrue

The $5 minimum wage was a moment of real innovation.

David Byrne

We can say we're trying to reduce the risk to the minimum but there is no such thing as risk-free,

Kevin Knox

We're going to see 4.6GB be a minimum for around six months or so. Then we'll move quickly to 6.4GB.

Tim Barrett

Some monthly minimum payments could be twice what they were.

Rep. Lawlor

Most people who are sex offenders plea bargain, often because the victims themselves don't want to testify. If the minimum sentence is 25 years, no one would ever plead to a sex offense.

Ray Williams

We'll be out of power, they said, minimum a month,

Jan Johnson

We have minimum wage laws. Do we need more social engineering? ... I say no.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.

Martin Jacques

The cost to Tata of purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar may have been small, but its wider symbolic significance is enormous.

Rodel Natividad

It's your temporary "wants" purchasing your unnecessary "needs".

Richard Petty

They said, 'Well, it can be done, but we'll have to do it a different way (rather than purchasing the series).' So here we are.

Tom Mitchell

It's a wholesale review of the county's purchasing code.

Emily Oster

All's fair in love and purchasing.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Charles Spurgeon

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.

David Ricardo

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

William Shakespeare

Your praises will become your wages.

William Shakespeare

Our praises are our wages.

Benjamin Harrison

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Thomas Perez

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