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… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
In America, we're being stripped of our jobs, our good jobs are really good down, and we've got to stop it. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Only the very rich and the very poor enjoy sex with a careless, indifferent abandon…only those of us in the middle class… — Suzanne Rindell Copy Share Image
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand. — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
I told the American people that I'd cut taxes for middle class families, and I did. I told you I'd cut taxes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington. — Gary Peters Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
“She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by… — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we… — Jennifer Palmieri Copy Share Image
No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The… — Jonathan Vilma Copy Share Image
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