#wag

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia. ↗

— John Malkovich

#compete #different #europe #figure #how

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success. ↗

— Patricia Ireland

#chances #fought #grounds #others #principle

An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it. ↗

— Jeremy Irons

#assistant #canterbury #changed #enough #get

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#bush #female #george #george w #high-profile

The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#being #classed #even #first #fought

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#constant #field #higher #higher standard #industry

Taxes on capital, taxes on labor, inflation, bureaucratic regulation, minimum wage laws, are all - to different degrees - unnecessary slices of the wedge that stand between an individual's effort and reward for that effort. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#bureaucratic #capital #degrees #different #effort

Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#children #cynics #entrust #harm #minds

Overseas, America's fighting men and women have been waging war against those who would attack America and plunge the world into a period of darkness, and their success can easily be seen. ↗

— Mark Kennedy

#america #attack #been #darkness #easily