'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I was born, the economy wasn't in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
We won't grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“All of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I know people who are both extremely wealthy, people who are middle class and people with little material wealth. Whatever their circumstance… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
One of the basic conditions for the victory of socialism is the arming of the workers Communist and the disarming of the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Our society is connecting workers with the products people consume and recognizing workers for their contributions. It is important to do that,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
By eliminating the tax breaks and special interest loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy, our framework ensures that the benefits of tax… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose… — Don Feder Copy Share Image
And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to balance the budget on the backs of America's middle class and seniors and must do what it takes… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
I was a young mother with a dependent. I went from nice flat and fire service job to cold and hungry with… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I'm really sick of the 'one percent' that is taking all the money from this country, draining the middle class, making it… — Emily Ratajkowski Copy Share Image
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle… — Adolph Green Copy Share Image
We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion… — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
We were lower middle class and my parents really wanted me to have an education and have a real job and not… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
Money? We didn't have it. We had a big family with four boys so that's a lot of mouths and clothes and… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on attacking unions and the labor movement, we need to find ways to strengthen and empower workers so we… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Putting middle class families in jeopardy in order to protect the wealthiest among us isn't consistent with the values and priorities that… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
![“Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes…” quote by Hillary Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/945/hillary-clinton-51_1930s_let-s-stop-for-a-second-and-remember-whe_3099032.jpg)
