The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are… — Chris Martin Copy Share Image
“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
“In the wake of 1984’s pummeling the Michigan Democratic Party commissioned Stanley Greenberg, then a political scientist and later a preeminent Democratic… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
Middle class people, the bourgeoisie, they are also feeling frightened at the moment. Some fear losing their fortunes; some go bankrupt; some… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I keep my house tidy, because then I can think clearly. I feel the same about myself. Presenting yourself well is a… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety has only gotten worse as a… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well,… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own… — Sheri Holman Copy Share Image
You can't make a direct comparison between middle-class African Americans and middle-class white Americans, affluent African Americans and affluent white Americans. The… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I remember asking my dad, "Why didn't you ever move to the States? You probably could have made a lot more money."… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They… — Joel Stein Copy Share Image
And I believe we should strengthen unions which have formed the bedrock of a strong middle class. It should be easier to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes. — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged. — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest. — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
The very act of becoming an entrepreneur is contrarian to middle class values, study hard, get a good job, be happy with… — Rashmi Bansal Copy Share Image
We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world. — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap. — Derek Raymond Copy Share Image
You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
