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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels… — Andrew Evans Copy Share Image
President Obama is making the tough decisions to get our country going in the right direction, has taken our economy from job… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
I think the Clintons are going to make their decision based on the merits. And their focus, like mine, is on middle… — Chris Matthews 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
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
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
“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 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
One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can… — Gloria Steinem 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
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you… — Vanilla Ice 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
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
“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
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