Middle class Quotes · Page 13

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

The middle class should not continue to foot the bill for tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.

— Keith Ellison

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

— Shahrukh Khan

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

— Elizabeth Warren

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

— Wes Streeting

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

— Eliot Engel

When it comes to taking responsibility towards the society, the middle class will be the first people to shirk it.

— Anonymous

The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there…

— Richard Benjamin

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never…

— Julianne Moore

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,…

— Henry Adams

What we're looking for in a president, most importantly, is leadership. A person that will actually stand up and fight for the…

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

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…

— Arabella Weir

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small…

— Carly Fiorina

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send…

— James Sinegal

When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing…

— Jason Sehorn

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning…

— John Green

When Americans are worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, Congress and the…

— Nancy Pelosi

“there was no dissent, no strike, no protest, no hesitation to shoulder a rifle against fellow workers of another land. When the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests,…

— Charles R. Morris

Barack and I were both raised by families who didnt have much in the way of money or material possessions but who…

— Michelle Obama

“We are the bourgeoisie—the third estate, as they call us now—and what we want is a nobility of merit, nothing more. We…

— Thomas Mann

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The…

— Stephanie Cutter

Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not…

— Robert Reich

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

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

— Kinky Friedman

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

— Mitt Romney

“The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.”

— Asher Judah

It's important to expand households' financial asset income to create a broad middle class.

— Fumio Kishida

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

— Misha Collins

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

— Kevin Kwan

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And”

— Amy Goldstein

I grew up in Rayagada in Odisha, in a middle-class family. But I always had the entrepreneurial bug.

— Ritesh Agarwal

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

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

— Kangna Ranaut

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

— George Foreman

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.

— Tom Perez

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

— Paul Ryan