My dad had a job in computers, we didn't really have any money, we weren't affluent, but we were fine. — CMAT Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle-class household. We had doors and we weren't white trash. — Sean Strickland Copy Share Image
We didn't know we were poor because that's how everyone around us lived. — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class. — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed. — Willie Stargell Copy Share Image
I come from a middle-class background and there was none to lead me through to movies. — Anupama Parameswaran Copy Share Image
What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams. — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I… — Pooja Hegde Copy Share Image
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.” — Russ Harris Copy Share Image
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Actually we've had a black bourgeoisie or the makings of a black bourgeoisie for many more decades.In a sense the quest for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“As a concerned American colleague writes to me: 'Europeans need to know there is a traveling theo-freak show which actually advocates reinstatement… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty. — Viktor Yanukovych Copy Share Image
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery. — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better. — Guo Guangchang Copy Share Image
I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, — Rana Dasgupta Copy Share Image
I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Lowering the middle-class tax rate... will likely lower work efforts and increase government dependence. — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Our parents busted their butts to make us feel like we weren't broke and in our neighbourhood we were probably more well… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
