They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was… — Ed Westwick Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if… — Nancy Travis Copy Share Image
The entire trendy foodie world - food writing, food television, celebrated restaurants - is all about food for the rich. But the… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I am a middle-class black, a college professor, far from wealthy, but also well removed from the kind of deprivation that would… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“ A Mother’s Advice Manners matter, regardless of your position in society. There is no excuse in this world to practice bad… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother -… — Brett Ratner Copy Share Image
“The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I think so much of my early life, even though I grew up White and middle class, I was completely shattered by… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class,… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We had a very upwardly mobile economy, and that peaked around the 1950s when the typical middle-class American family consisted of a… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
It's not just the automobile industry is coming back, folks. Manufacturing is coming back. The middle class is coming back. America is… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
The old notion that children are the private property of parents dies very slowly. In reality, no parent raises a child alone.… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
Policing was developed, created, and implemented for the elite, and - in the case of the United States - the elites were… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
There are only two ways to have a middle class in your country: either you have highly skilled manufacturing jobs, or you… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The GOP's policies are not designed to help the middle class. They are designed to help their wealthy, powerful friends and donors… — David Brock Copy Share Image
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
What I do believe absolutely is that in the middle of a recession, the American middle class and working class needs a… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy,… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
I come from a well-educated and cultured, middle-class Maharashtrian family and have been brought up with social awareness. — Urmila Matondkar Copy Share Image
You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses,… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
