You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich…

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because…

— Fran Lebowitz

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect…

— Timothy Noah

Which class is happiest, the rich, the middle class or the poor? A very successful executive of a large organization touches upon this vital…

— B. C. Forbes

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

— Aristotle

Rich people believe "You can have your cake and eat it too." Middle-class people believe "Cake is too rich, so I'll only have a…

— T. Harv Eker

The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.

— Robert Reich

He was from a different class, too poor, and they would never approve if their daughter became serious with someone like him.

— Nicholas Sparks

There's a vast class - the poor, the underprivileged, the people least likely to vote - who are not represented any more.

— Austin Mitchell

Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food system. It relies too much on transportation, chemical fertilization, big use…

— Majora Carter

The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“P3- every simple need to which an institutional answer is found permit the invention of a new class of poor and a new definition…

— Ivan Illich

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for…

— George Bernard Shaw

Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor

— Robert Reich

Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white;…

— Kathleen Blanco

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged…

— Robert Reich