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J. C. WATTS McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.
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RACHAEL TAYLOR That is flat-out false, and I'm ashamed that you would compare me to Newt Gingrich. Nobody up here d...
HOWARD DEAN I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you min...
CHRIS ROCK If you heard 40 times in a day that Newt Gingrich takes the wings off of butterflies, eventually you...
KELLYANNE CONWAY When you're poor, you don't want anyone to know you're poor.
ADAM RAPP What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporter...
BARNEY FRANK Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?
MOLLY IVINS I think a lot of the business owners are already paying above the minimum wage. The minimum wage is ...
BUCK LAYNE You don't know who you messing with man, I slap people for fun. That's what I do man! You wa...
CHRIS TUCKER You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vo...
BILL CLINTON Given the fact that Maine has raised its minimum wage each year for the last five years, that our mi...
DAVID BOWLES When I was young, I had minimum wage jobs as a busboy, flipping burgers and parking cars.
BRUCE RAUNER What I want to do is create jobs that make the minimum wage irrelevant.
THOM TILLIS When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that...
BILL PARCELLS If you don't have a child, you're not a real woman. I know the ERA people will kill me for s...
ERIN GRAY Any job that pays you is a real job, but unless you can make a living on minimum wage, do not settle...
ALI BABAR The bottom line is that five million low-income Americans working full time for minimum wage, deserv...
JIM CLYBURN I worked min (minimum) wage my first job, and I got a raise when I memorized what goes on a hamburge...
MIKE SPENCE Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' empl...
EDMUND PHELPS You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it h...
CHARLIZE THERON It's important to raise your voice in things you feel passionate about and things that you know ...
ZENDAYA Increasing the minimum wage would be a good thing. You can't eat off the minimum wage. You can't aff...
DANNY THOMPSON Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is ...
JAMES P. HOFFA Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far l...
GENE SISKEL You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. Th...
FRANCISCO LOPEZ On the protocol, I don't know what to do... ain't good with talking to new girls... I even don't hav...
DEYTH BANGER The way China is looking to boost consumer spending is astounding. They are going to boost the minim...
WILLIAM FUNG Increasing minimum wage doesn't build a stronger economy.
KAREN HANDEL Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Newt Gingrich would cream Barack Obama in a debate.
MONICA CROWLEY Raising the minimum wage means raising the living wage - and that's good news for Ohio.
SHERROD BROWN When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD As Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich dedicated much of his energy to improving the lives of the ch...
DERRICK MAX When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an a...
JOHN KATZMAN I think Newt Gingrich has a proven track record of changing Washington and getting results.
J. C. WATTS The value of the minimum wage shouldn't be eroded, and it has been.
ROBERT J. GARAGIOLA The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.
CHRIS CRAMER Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
QUENTIN CRISP Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage th...
THOMAS SOWELL The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across Ame...
SHERWOOD BOEHLERT The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behi...
STEVE GUTTENBERG Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the mini...
BILL PASCRELL I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfact...
SETH ROGEN I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally...
RICK PERRY Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout.
MICHELE BACHMANN On the campaign, I've had the privilege of advocating for important issues that affect all women...
ANN CALLIS You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what th...
LEONARD NIMOY As we move beyond Women's History Month, I am committed to advancing legislation to raise the mi...
COLLEEN HANABUSA I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about w...
LANA DEL REY I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC I only eat things that you don't have to kill.
CAROL KANE I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or ...
BOB DOLE When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how t...
JOHN MADDEN You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child...
REGINA KING I've learnt that you tend most to make a div of yourself when you're trying to cover up the ...
CAITLIN MORAN When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1.
SUMIT Ð CHOUDHARY C2 A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER I will ensure the conservative legacy and leadership of Tom Price, Johnny Isakson, and Newt Gingrich...
KAREN HANDEL By raising the minimum wage in California, 700,000 people are going to lose their jobs. There are a ...
RICK SCOTT Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.
THOMAS PEREZ I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You do...
TARAJI P. HENSON Newt Gingrich is a very intelligent man, if he says so himself.
JOHN PODHORETZ She is our Newt Gingrich. She is our Tom DeLay.
JARVIS STEWART When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th...
GREG RUSEDSKI If you're a friend to the working people of New York, and you're a friend to the labor movement, the...
ANDREW CUOMO I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like ...
DYLAN MORAN Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of ...
JOHN PODHORETZ I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't...
CARL REINER Take my word for it as the whip in the House that we have plenty of votes to re-elect Newt Gingrich,...
TOM DELAY This is a ridiculous heat wave we're in right now, and to contribute, Newt Gingrich said that fo...
BILL MAHER I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting mo...
BEN GIBBARD I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs aren't paying en...
BARBARA MIKULSKI I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John...
BRIAN SCHWEITZER He who plays the last trump card wins. If you vote for the ballot initiative in November, you are vo...
ARI ADLER There's a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over ...
GWEN MOORE There is a definite need to increase the minimum wage in Pennsylvania. I was hoping the state would ...
PAUL COSTA When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those wh...
BILL BRADLEY The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
BOB WOODWARD In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believ...
NICK VUJICIC I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to ...
KANYE WEST Newt Gingrich has certainly seen his own empire rise - and fall.
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.
CARLY FIORINA When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know...
DAN ROSENSWEIG The mainstream media today has the biggest disconnect with its audience that it's ever, ever had...
RUSH LIMBAUGH I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel...
LEE DANIELS You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of...
SHEMAR MOORE I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.
MICHAEL FROME Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that pers...
BERNIE SANDERS The minimum wage should be a living wage.
JON OSSOFF I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and i...
TORY LANEZ I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that strugg...
ANDERSON PAAK The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to ...
TREVOR NOAH I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that...
MARIE OSMOND By tying minimum wage to money supply, the poor's income would rise and fall with the rise and f...
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