Quotes about Middle Class

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. Votes: 4

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. Votes: 4

Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America. Votes: 4

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. Votes: 4

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium. Votes: 3

The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was a machine that turned lead into gold. Votes: 3

Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class. Votes: 2

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it. Votes: 2

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. Votes: 2

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. Votes: 2

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality. Votes: 2

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. Votes: 2

Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. Votes: 2

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose. Votes: 2

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. Votes: 2

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal. Votes: 2

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success. Votes: 2

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class. Votes: 2

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it. Votes: 2

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class. Votes: 2

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme. Votes: 2

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. Votes: 2

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people. Votes: 2

We choose forward. We choose inclusion. We choose growing together. We choose American economic might and muscle, standing strong on the bedrock of the American ideal: a strong, empowered and ever-growing middle class. Votes: 2

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees. Votes: 2

My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population. Votes: 2

For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity. Votes: 2

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back. Votes: 2

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward. Votes: 2

Latinos are concerned about the same pocketbook issues that matter to most middle class Americans - creating good-paying jobs in this country, making sure our children get a quality education, and ensuring that our families have access to affordable and quality healthcare. Votes: 2

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. Votes: 2

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. Votes: 2

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!' Votes: 2

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down. Votes: 2

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great! Votes: 2

The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate. Votes: 2

As an economic historian, I appreciate what manufacturing has contributed to the United States. It was the engine of growth that allowed us to win two world wars and provided millions of families with a ticket to the middle class. But public policy needs to go beyond sentiment and history. Votes: 2

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. Votes: 2

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before. Votes: 2

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it. Votes: 2

I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges. Votes: 2

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work. Votes: 2

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender. Votes: 2

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary. Votes: 2

I'm painfully middle class. Votes: 0

I am hard-core middle class. Votes: 0

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. Votes: 0

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people. Votes: 0

I'm a warrior for the middle class. Votes: 0

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence. Votes: 0

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class. Votes: 0

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class. Votes: 0

Middle-class families know education begins at birth. Votes: 0

I believe the middle class game is dead. Votes: 0

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class. Votes: 0

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. Votes: 0

The middle class in America has been devastated. Votes: 0

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle. Votes: 0

Before there were unions, there was no middle class. Votes: 0

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class. Votes: 0

I strongly support tax relief for the middle class. Votes: 0

I'm a proud product of the American middle class. Votes: 0

I was middle class and fucked up and spoilt. Votes: 0

My parents were determined to move into the middle class. Votes: 0

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull. Votes: 0

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban. Votes: 0

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. Votes: 0

I would say I came from upper middle class family. Votes: 0

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families. Votes: 0

That's what healthcare reform is about: the middle class's economic security. Votes: 0

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. Votes: 0

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath. Votes: 0

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending. Votes: 0

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class. Votes: 0

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education. Votes: 0

Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. Votes: 0

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family. Votes: 0

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education. Votes: 0

The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. Votes: 0

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am. Votes: 0

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, Votes: 0

Middle class Labour leaders are recaptured by the establishment when they die. Votes: 0

The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper. Votes: 0

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games. Votes: 0

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable. Votes: 0

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes. Votes: 0

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs. Votes: 0

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire. Votes: 0

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. Votes: 0

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class. Votes: 0

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. Votes: 0

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway. Votes: 0

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. Votes: 0

The middle class is growing that's the reality that nobody can stop. Votes: 0

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich. Votes: 0

China has a bigger middle class than the entire population of Europe. Votes: 0

The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. Votes: 0

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants. Votes: 0

Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney. Votes: 0

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life. Votes: 0

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say. Votes: 0

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family. Votes: 0

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government. Votes: 0

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive. Votes: 0

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor Votes: 0

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class. Votes: 0

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing. Votes: 0

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father. Votes: 0

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class. Votes: 0

Why is this government so insensitive to the concerns of the middle-class people? Votes: 0

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background. Votes: 0

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor. Votes: 0

In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow... Votes: 0

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. Votes: 0

Drugs and drinking affect every family I know, country and city, middle-class and poor. Votes: 0

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't. Votes: 0

Middle-class people are becoming desperate. It can cause a moral man to break bad. Votes: 0

Financial leverage is the advantage the rich have over the poor and middle class. Votes: 0

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level. Votes: 0

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people. Votes: 0

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. Votes: 0

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. Votes: 0

Ann Romney talking about middle class moms is like Chris Christie talking about a salad Votes: 0

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else. Votes: 0

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been. Votes: 0

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen. Votes: 0

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor. Votes: 0

Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class. Votes: 0

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world. Votes: 0

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class. Votes: 0

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated. Votes: 0

The Eugenic Society . . . is perpetually bewailing the fact that wage-earners breed faster than middle-class people. Votes: 0

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. Votes: 0

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. Votes: 0

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. Votes: 0

Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way! Votes: 0

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets, Votes: 0

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class. Votes: 0

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried. Votes: 0

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. Votes: 0

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be? Votes: 0

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class. Votes: 0

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity. Votes: 0

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. Votes: 0

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first. Votes: 0

The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Votes: 0

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress. Votes: 0

As a middle class Indian you have always been taught to buy peace. Like a commodity. Votes: 0

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out. Votes: 0

Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor? Votes: 0

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor. Votes: 0

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy. Votes: 0

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices. Votes: 0

Average, middle-class people, the people of Macomb County, couldn't afford health care. Now they can [with Obamacare]. Votes: 0

My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed. Votes: 0

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better. Votes: 0

Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions. Votes: 0

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America. Votes: 0

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class. Votes: 0

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class. Votes: 0

I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know. Votes: 0

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. Votes: 0

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. Votes: 0

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together. Votes: 0

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class. Votes: 0

Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking. Votes: 0

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code. Votes: 0

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. Votes: 0

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy. Votes: 0

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families. Votes: 0

Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. Votes: 0

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way. Votes: 0

My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures. Votes: 0

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs. Votes: 0

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. Votes: 0

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer. Votes: 0

Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class. Votes: 0

I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids. Votes: 0

Friends at school were always quite shocked that we holidayed in Nigeria, but it was all pretty middle-class, really. Votes: 0

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. Votes: 0

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. Votes: 0

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. Votes: 0

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. Votes: 0

In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. Votes: 0

I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up. Votes: 0

Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. Votes: 0

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. Votes: 0

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education. Votes: 0

Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country. Votes: 0

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story. Votes: 0

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century. Votes: 0

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class! Votes: 0

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality. Votes: 0

Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. Votes: 0

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family. Votes: 0

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman. Votes: 0

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. Votes: 0

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. Votes: 0

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. Votes: 0

Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more. Votes: 0

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. Votes: 0

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household. Votes: 0

I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand. Votes: 0

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women. Votes: 0

I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values. Votes: 0

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it. Votes: 0

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life. Votes: 0

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. Votes: 0

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is. Votes: 0

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable. Votes: 0

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. Votes: 0

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States. Votes: 0

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from. Votes: 0

In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988. Votes: 0

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue. Votes: 0

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers. Votes: 0

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. Votes: 0

The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today. Votes: 0

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. Votes: 0

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. Votes: 0

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. Votes: 0

The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion. Votes: 0

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. Votes: 0

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal. Votes: 0

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington. Votes: 0

I came from a middle-class family in Mexico, from a household full of women, in a country that is very machista. Votes: 0

The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S. Votes: 0

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class. Votes: 0

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance. Votes: 0

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go. Votes: 0

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters. Votes: 0

I grew up in an average middle-class family. I don't think I even knew any friends who were fostered or adopted. Votes: 0

Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. Votes: 0

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country. Votes: 0

I'm a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. Votes: 0

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind. Votes: 0

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college. Votes: 0

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth. Votes: 0

Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened. Votes: 0

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. Votes: 0

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me. Votes: 0

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession. Votes: 0

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. Votes: 0

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. Votes: 0

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes Votes: 0

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class. Votes: 0

Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A. Votes: 0

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. Votes: 0

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona. Votes: 0

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls. Votes: 0

These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. Votes: 0

He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class American. Votes: 0

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. Votes: 0

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true. Votes: 0

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise. Votes: 0

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton: putting big government spending financed by the Chinese ahead of good-paying jobs for middle-class Americans. Is she guilty or not guilty? Votes: 0

Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives. Votes: 0

I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know? Votes: 0

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. Votes: 0

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now. Votes: 0

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong. Votes: 0

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things. Votes: 0

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end. Votes: 0

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us. Votes: 0

Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class. Votes: 0

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit. Votes: 0

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class. Votes: 0

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly. Votes: 0

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. Votes: 0

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. Votes: 0

I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages. Votes: 0

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. Votes: 0

If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it. Votes: 0

What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a tax relief. Votes: 0

War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been. Votes: 0

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story. Votes: 0

In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world. Votes: 0

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school. Votes: 0

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system. Votes: 0

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class. Votes: 0

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance. Votes: 0

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class. Votes: 0

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do. Votes: 0

I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never really had money. Votes: 0

Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that most Americans share. Votes: 0

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves. Votes: 0

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings. Votes: 0

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform. Votes: 0

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. Votes: 0

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence. Votes: 0

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school. Votes: 0

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that. Votes: 0

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation. Votes: 0

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts. Votes: 0

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. Votes: 0

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions. Votes: 0

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media. Votes: 0

We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population. Votes: 0

The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs. Votes: 0

Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become. Votes: 0

Simply, with a Republican Congress sitting shotgun, Mitt Romney will put the middle class on the roof and take us for a long, painful ride. Votes: 0

I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower. Votes: 0

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. Votes: 0

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. Votes: 0

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches. Votes: 0

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position. Votes: 0

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class. Votes: 0

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime. Votes: 0

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life. Votes: 0

We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco. Votes: 0

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth. Votes: 0

Inside each of you is a rich person, a poor person & a middle class person. It is up to you to decide which person you become. Votes: 0

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it's really finished as a force for grappling with the world. Votes: 0

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Votes: 0

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. Votes: 0

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. Votes: 0

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. Votes: 0

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. Votes: 0

In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat us as being inferior. Votes: 0

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties. Votes: 0

Tax expenditures for middle- and working-class Americans - like the earned income tax credit - aren't thought of as loopholes; they're just thought of as benefits. Votes: 0

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. Votes: 0

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class. Votes: 0

Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity. Votes: 0

The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. Votes: 0

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street. Votes: 0

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. Votes: 0

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed. Votes: 0

I became one of those anonymous Americans who tries to keep his mind sharp and inquisitive while performing all the humiliating rituals of the middle class Votes: 0

The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other. Votes: 0

I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class. Votes: 0

Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine. Votes: 0

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. Votes: 0

One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the bourgeoisie the middle class. Votes: 0

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain. Votes: 0

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. Votes: 0

In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves. Votes: 0

I didn't say one negative word about poor people or about middle-class people or anything else. All I said was that the rich deserve our gratitude. Votes: 0

I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government. Votes: 0

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school. Votes: 0

My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now. Votes: 0

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. Votes: 0

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people a break. Votes: 0

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. Votes: 0

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis. Votes: 0

New York is for everybody; it's for the poor, it's for the middle-class, it's for the wealthy. We can't punish any one group and chase them away. Votes: 0

You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible. Votes: 0

Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen. Votes: 0

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind. Votes: 0

A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find this attractive. Votes: 0

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in. Votes: 0

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. Votes: 0

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government. Votes: 0

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. Votes: 0

It's common sense to be for middle-class tax cuts and tax cuts on small businesses, to be for not allowing Medicare to be turned into voucher care. Votes: 0

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons. Votes: 0

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too. Votes: 0

Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class. Votes: 0

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt. Votes: 0

The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with secure income and steady salary. Votes: 0

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor. Votes: 0

Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. Votes: 0

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world. Votes: 0

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. Votes: 0

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class. Votes: 0

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich. Votes: 0

Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them. Votes: 0

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money. Votes: 0

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work Votes: 0

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi. Votes: 0

The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle class. The decision is up to you. Votes: 0

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women. Votes: 0

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Votes: 0

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. Votes: 0

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically. Votes: 0

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. Votes: 0

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising. Votes: 0

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut... Votes: 0

We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living. Votes: 0

I know that at literary festivals I'm speaking mostly to middle-class women, who frequently vote in a way that is contrary to how I'd like them to vote. Votes: 0

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us. Votes: 0

The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind. Votes: 0

'The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind. Votes: 0

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. Votes: 0

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living. Votes: 0

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits. Votes: 0

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent. Votes: 0

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. Votes: 0

Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation! Votes: 0

Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad. Votes: 0

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are. Votes: 0

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. Votes: 0

Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney! Votes: 0

If [Donald] Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity. Votes: 0

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb. Votes: 0

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class. Votes: 0

While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Votes: 0

First of all, she [Hillary Clinton] is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks. Votes: 0

England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents. Votes: 0

I'm tired of feeling like I should be grateful when popular culture deigns to acknowledge the experiences of people who are not white, middle class or wealthy, and heterosexual. Votes: 0

Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. Votes: 0

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go. Votes: 0

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. Votes: 0

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age. Votes: 0

Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it. Votes: 0

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected. Votes: 0

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers. Votes: 0

Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see myself writing about modern middle-class Londoners anytime soon. Votes: 0

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large. Votes: 0

We're facing headwinds from Europe. Europe doing the right things here to stabilize their situation is important to our small businesses, our workers, the middle class here, and overall economy. Votes: 0

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class. Votes: 0

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't speak enough to their legitimate concerns. Votes: 0

My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way. Votes: 0

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead. Votes: 0

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. Votes: 0

The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas. Votes: 0

We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature. Votes: 0

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. Votes: 0

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it. Votes: 0

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them. Votes: 0

I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes. Votes: 0

Dissembling was so large a part of middle-class life that honesty and frankness seemed the most devious stratagem of all. The most outright lie was the closest one came to truth. Votes: 0

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged. Votes: 0

Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But I'm still the same basic middle-class slob. Votes: 0

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth. Votes: 0

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. Votes: 0

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values, four hundred years, five hundred years ago. Votes: 0

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. Votes: 0

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. Votes: 0

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about. Votes: 0

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. Votes: 0

The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place. Votes: 0

To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class. Votes: 0

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk. Votes: 0

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before. Votes: 0

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America. Votes: 0

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic. Votes: 0

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth. Votes: 0

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward. Votes: 0

Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are either gone or going, and they're not coming back. Votes: 0

The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's failed every time it's been tried. Votes: 0

I think the state has some serious problems. Just look at the layoffs going on across the state, not just in Chicago. It affects the middle class. It pushes people down. Votes: 0

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future." Votes: 0

We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a split-level suburban home with a color TV.' Votes: 0

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money. Votes: 0

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well. Votes: 0

If CEOs insist that middle class Americans compete with cheap foreign labor, why not outsource the jobs of CEOs? If business is all about cost, they should be the first to volunteer. Votes: 0

I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people. Votes: 0

We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them. Votes: 0

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home. Votes: 0

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful. Votes: 0

She was not granted the luxury of forgetting her lower middle-class existence where life hangs by an unseen thread to every hope and where every slash of disappointment shrinks the life further. Votes: 0

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. Votes: 0

There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing. Votes: 0

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital. Votes: 0

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us. Votes: 0

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have. Votes: 0

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school. Votes: 0

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. Votes: 0

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class. Votes: 0

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. Votes: 0

I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again. Votes: 0

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money. Votes: 0

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. Votes: 0

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss. Votes: 0

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again. Votes: 0

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on. Votes: 0

My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French. Votes: 0

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background. Votes: 0

Wes Clark put forward a middle class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle class families, none without minor children at home, .. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class. Votes: 0

We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy - the American middle class and those struggling to enter it. Votes: 0

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty. Votes: 0

No Latina woman would be called 'Ms.' - that's an invention of middle-class Anglo women. Latina women are proud to be called 'Mrs.' That simply means that we have a family. Votes: 0

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise. Votes: 0

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones. Votes: 0

TV has gone back to basics, relating to middle class family with real characters, less make-up and simple shots. I feel as an actor it is a delight to work in such shows. Votes: 0

I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me. Votes: 0

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. Votes: 0

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures. Votes: 0

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow. Votes: 0

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck. Votes: 0

We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago. Votes: 0

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world. Votes: 0

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand. Votes: 0

When you go to work, if your name is on the building, you're rich. If your name is on your desk, you're middle class. And if your name is on your shirt, you're poor. Votes: 0

The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them. Votes: 0

It is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. We need more than a plan for the big banks. The middle class needs a raise. And we need more jobs. Votes: 0

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. Votes: 0

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward. Votes: 0

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society. Votes: 0

A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel. Votes: 0

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house. Votes: 0

I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family - poor, in fact. Votes: 0

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. Votes: 0

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. Votes: 0

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also. Votes: 0

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to. Votes: 0