Marco Rubio Quotes

You've got to support working families. We should be looking to support those who strive the hardest, and increase the national living wage, to make sure that the lowest paid get the biggest increase in pay.

In the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works a full time job should have to live in poverty. That's a fundamental value proposition, an article of faith in our country that I know an overwhelming majority of Americans agree on.

At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.

No person can maximize the American Dream on the minimum wage.

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

Everyone knows that if you can keep on making money, everyone's happy.

I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.

There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself.

When we talk about the kind of folks whose lives will be made better by raising the minimum wage, we're not talking about a couple teenagers earning extra spending money to supplement their allowance. We're talking about providers and breadwinners. Working Americans with bills to pay and mouths to feed.

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Nothing helps families make end meet than higher wages.

Hillary Clinton understands that if someone in America this country works 40 hours a week, that person should not be living in poverty. She understands that we must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

I make more money in a week than my father made in a year.

Money can make or break you. It just depends on what you make it to be.

I don't count no one else's money. I want everyone to be taken care of and be able to take care of their families and be successful.

I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.

The minimum wage is not something that you want to stay on as a permanent basis. For example, if you have a minimum wage job, you don't stay there 20 or 30 years. You don't put your children through college working on minimum wage.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

People everywhere in the world are hungry for economic opportunity. And it's about a lot more than being able to make money.

I will stand up for what I believe and for what I have always believed: Every person has a right to be rich in this country and I want to help them get there.

I think you're only free if you're working on very low or huge money.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.