Dalton McGuinty Quotes

We can afford to pay workers fairly, and it is the right thing to do. We also need equal pay for equal work.

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets?

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive wage, many of us are deeply disturbed that some hard-working families still have very little.

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

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

People believe that if they work, they should be paid a living wage…. Work has to pay.

We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

America's workers deserve a clean vote on a $7.25 increase, with no strings attached. Such an increase helps everyone and hurts no one.

We have to raise the minimum wage.

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in terms of goods and services the employee must purchase in his daily living.

They only ask for a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.

An industry that can not pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

“A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work,” is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realized?

Ten cents a day is adequate pay for a workingman.

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.

We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

I do not support a livable wage.

To be effective in tackling poverty wages, a living wage has to be mandatory and basic trade union rights should be restored so workers can protect themselves from exploitative employers.

I believe in raising the minimum wage and equal pay for work.

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

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

The national minimum wage has not been increased in 9 years. By year's end, 21 States across America will have a minimum wage exceeding the Federal minimum wage.

The Bush administration staunchly opposed legislation which would preserve overtime pay for all workers.