If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
My dad was a mechanical engineer and a drummer. We had no money, but I never felt we had no money, and… — Donna Air Copy Share Image
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
I'm a very conservative businessman. I don't work on credit. My father was the guy who taught me how to think straight,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Being a Midwesterner, I know that many of the middle-class manufacturing jobs that had been at the heart of our economy are… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who… — Mike McCurry Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The middle-class standard of the independent self has increasingly become the default American standard for how to think, feel and act in… — Susan T. Fiske Copy Share Image
By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class… — Abhishek Bachchan Copy Share Image
All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America. Particularly is this true of the American woman of the middle class.… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class. — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
But he like my mother, had certainly come to know that those who work the most do not make the most money.… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
I think the trick is to understand that universal isn't defined by a singular way of being. We don't have to somehow… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in… — Angela Ahrendts Copy Share Image
My father was in real estate, banking, and land management. As family life, it was very conventional, happy, and comfortable. We weren't… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a… — Tadashi Yanai Copy Share Image
My uncle, Mr. Stephen Maple, had been at the same time the most successful and the least respectable of our family, so… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Now that I'm more middle class, I have access to consumer goods. I do enjoy feminine frippery, feminine doo-da, stuff like that. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
To reward work, to grow the middle class and strengthen the economy, to give millions of Americans the respect they deserve... It's… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I let my youth be led by this want to be an actor, for good and bad. Regardless of whether your parents… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
We have a new joke on the reservation: 'What is cultural deprivation?' Answer: 'Being an upper-middle class white kid living in a… — John Fire Lame Deer Copy Share Image
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