Middle class Quotes · Page 14

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

— Anita Brookner

The [Booker] prize was actually responsible in many ways for my political activism. I won this thing and I was suddenly the…

— Arundhati Roy

Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows…

— James P. Hoffa

In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of…

— Dick Morris

The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema…

— Saswata Chatterjee

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

— Kathleen Blanco

“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois…

— Junot Díaz

I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best.

— Michelangelo Antonioni

You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

— Joe Biden

“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps…

— Diana Trilling

Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison…

— Vladimir Nabokov

When the government takes more money out of the pockets of middle class Americans, entrepreneurs, and businesses, it lessens the available cash…

— Fabrizio Moreira

The fact is, is that Donald Trump knows that as he rifles money from the working and middle classes up to the…

— Keith Ellison

Poor people and most of the middle class are not willing to be uncomfortable. Remember, being comfortable is their biggest priority in…

— T. Harv Eker

Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty. Given a comfortable middle-class start in…

— Sherwood Anderson

Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is…

— Cynthia Ozick

All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the…

— Camille Paglia

Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who…

— Celinda Lake

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to…

— Wednesday Martin

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle…

— Andrew Cuomo

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We…

— Sander Levin

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class…

— Rudy Giuliani

Talking about success in society, no one can complain, because today everyone can choose what he or she wants. They don't just…

— Odd Nerdrum

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union…

— George Orwell

I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small…

— Carly Fiorina