“All of us were poor, and no amount of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia would change that” — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades. — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental. — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house. — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.” — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens. — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
We grew up no frills, is how I would say it. We were going to be fed, sheltered and educated. — Robby Hoffman Copy Share Image
To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
What hinders the middle class the most is taxes, and what hinders business from creating jobs and moving people into the middle… — Kathy Szeliga Copy Share Image
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Yes, i will - i will fight for my right and what i believe to be mine. People from the middle class… — Arunima Sinha Copy Share Image
“The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It’s the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
“The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“He wondered about the people in houses like those. They would be, for example, small clerks, shop-assistants, commercial travellers, insurance touts, tram… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies… — Charlie Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything.… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class. — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Empowering women in the workforce is a key to growing the economy and having a thriving middle class. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
We had no money, my dad was out of work a lot, and we never owned a house. It was very hand-to-mouth. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
“I'm not middle-class; I do not have a degree. I am upper-class without money.” — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to. — Eric Garcetti Copy Share Image
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education, — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive. — Nick Hanauer Copy Share Image
Even though we were middle-class, my parents always got me what I wanted. — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
