The fundamental law of capitalism is: when workers have more money, businesses have more customers, and need more workers. The idea that high wages e…

- Nick Hanauer

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

- Nick Hanauer

Raising the minimum wage allows business people to stop thinking about workers simply as costs to be cut and allows you to start thinking about worke…

- Nick Hanauer

I think the idea that giant profitable corporations should pay their workers enough so that they don't need food stamps - since when is that left win…

- Nick Hanauer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're not going to th…

- Nick Hanauer

You can go back 150 years and literally find the same people saying the same thing in the same way. "If we have to pay you more, it will be bad for y…

- Nick Hanauer

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

- Nick Hanauer

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is…

- Nick Hanauer

If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.

- Nick Hanauer