"Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation."

-- Russ Carnahan

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“I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.”
“... Washington was not only an important capital. It was a city of fear. Below that glittering and delightful surface there is another story, that of underpaid Government clerks, men and women holding desperately to work that some political pull may at any moment take from them. A city of men in office and clutching that office, and a city of struggle which the country never suspects.”
“They're feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor Lashes Out at Feds". WWL-AM Radio Interview, us.cnn.com. September 02, 2005.
“I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.”
“We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory, instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. January 30, 2014.
“I would never go to jail to protect animals or plants or wilderness. For me, itâ€™s about the people.”

Source : "What Love Looks Like". Interview with Terry Tempest Williams, orionmagazine.org. May 28, 2011.
“But Hale didn't follow. For a second he just stood and stared out over his empire. It was like he was lost in a dream when he said, "So, your dad broke into the patent office." "Yep," Kat told him. "How many goats am I going to owe him for that?" "More than you've got, big guy. Way more than you've got.”
“There is a theology to gardening that few of us consider, but to understand this theology means relinquishing much control - our arsenal of books, techniques, tools, chemicals, fertilizers, fancy hybrids, and expectations. Yet, that is exactly what we must do if we are to fully embrace a more spiritual form of gardening. As a part of Nature we must learn to enter our garden as if it were truly sacred, we must learn to enter with humility.”

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