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Tom Perez Quotes

American - Politician | October 7, 1961 -

If the opponents of an increase in the minimum wage were correct, then every time you fly to Seattle, you've got to bring a bagged lunch because there shouldn't be any restaurants because they should have all have gone out of business as a result of raising the minimum wage.

Business Time Lunch Fly Result You

Workers are baking the pie of prosperity, but they're not sharing in those dividends. That's unfair.

Baking Pie Sharing Prosperity Unfair

Workers all too frequently have been taking it on the chin. They're working hard and falling behind, all too frequently.

Working Hard Hard Falling Workers

What we want to do is call attention to the fact that when workers and business work together, when you create a stakeholder model of corporate governance, where you understand that you can do well by your workers, you can do well by your shareholders and you can do well by your customers, that's how we create a virtuous cycle.

Work Business Together Attention You

Mandatory arbitration clauses I think, more often than not, work to the detriment of working people.

Work People Think More Working Than

The employers who do best are employers who reject these false choices. It's not a zero-sum world where you either take care of your workers or you take care of your shareholders. You can do good and do well, too.

Good Best World Choices Care You

There's a myth out there that you have to genuflect at the altar of quarterly earnings. But it's a false choice that you can either be a good fiduciary or promote values such as environmental sustainability.

Good Environmental You Values Choice

We're building a movement. It's undeniably a work in progress, but there's a fundamental desire to see capitalism to do something different.

Work Progress Building Capitalism

I share the skepticism that my friends have about NAFTA. It was woefully weak in protecting workers and on the enforcement side. The question is can we meaningfully build a trade regime that has as its North Star protecting American workers and American jobs through meaningful enforcement? I think we can.

Think American Friends Build Weak

We have to bake labor provisions into the core of an agreement. TPP would do that. Under NAFTA, countries had to simply promise to uphold the laws of their own nations.

Labor Own Agreement Core Laws Would

In terms of intellectual property, so many of the job creators I know are start-ups. In the IP setting, we can meaningfully improve on the status quo, and in so doing, we can help small businesses, large businesses, and those in between.

Job Small Doing Help Know Improve

What we're doing here in America is we're making women choose between the family they love and the job that they need. No other nation on the planet is making these choices. In other countries, they've put politics aside and looked at the facts. When women succeed, the world succeeds. We're losing sight of that here in the USA.

Family Love Women Politics Job

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