“the weakness of the middle class is holding back tax receipts, especially because those at the top are so adroit in avoiding… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I… — Pooja Hegde Copy Share Image
We were promised we could keep our healthcare plans. We were promised that Obamacare would not raise middle class taxes. Instead, the… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company… — Jerry A. Webman Copy Share Image
I would love to tell you this country is on the cusp of coming together, but it isn't. But I can tell… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wages never seem to go up. The whole economy feels stuck, and millions of Americans, millions of Americans, middle-class security is now… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle… — Kelela Copy Share Image
I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
Not only the brothers on the street but the middle class brothers are also identifying with the gangster rappers because of the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up to become a mechanic - but some of my classmates did. And they've been able to build good,… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It’s the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Our parents busted their butts to make us feel like we weren't broke and in our neighbourhood we were probably more well… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.” — Russ Harris Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
I do believe that we should substantially lower student debt in this country, which is crushing millions of people. We pay for… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“- What do you expect? Think we were sent into the world to have a soft time and what is it? Float… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I think satire is a luxury of literate middle-class people. People who are well fed and relatively secure in their beds can… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Especially for the young and the lowest-skilled, minimum wage becomes a toll that prevents many from entering the work force and gaining… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
“This was the authentic voice of the educated British middle class, unshakable in its tone, meeting the war with light-hearted fortitude and… — Norman Moss Copy Share Image
The bottom line is there are lots of problems that were not created by government. The biggest one is loss of middle… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn't because their local property tax went up, their excise… — Senator John Kerry Copy Share Image
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched… — Tamara Keith Copy Share Image
“In England in the 19th century, advances in printing methods, combined with the rise of a prosperous middle class, engendered a booming… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
