I'm very, very concerned ultimately, as Medicaid costs increase in my state and most states, it's going to reduce funding for state… — Dave Heineman Copy Share Image
In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
“In fact, a lot of life is hopeless today, even for middle-class kids. I mean, for the first time in I think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“There!" she said, as she spread the tablecloth and put the sandwiches in a neat pile upon it. "Don't they look tempting?… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“ 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 solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York,… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
“[Joan C. Williams] Food has always been a class code, and since Alice Waters, the way to give an upper-middle class act… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
In the past when I was on protests, it was always people shouting out of the cars, 'get a job, get a… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and… — Ainsley Earhardt Copy Share Image
Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white… — Diamanda Galas Copy Share Image
I think that Indian writing in English is a really peculiar beast. I can't think of any literature - perhaps Russian literature… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I've stood in rooms in urban, rural, and suburban parts of my state and asked a room of middle class voters to… — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they… — Greg Mottola Copy Share Image
Among our people, theres not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the fields… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
If we have more people on the receiving end of government - more people as the middle class becomes sucked in more… — Fred Thompson Copy Share Image
A world where wages no longer rise still needs consumers. Middle-class purchasing power has been maintained through loans, loans and more loans.… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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