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
It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the… — Kevin Ayers Copy Share Image
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, American taxpayers now will be forced to finance a multi-billion dollar jobs program in Iraq. Suddenly the war is about jobs.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
MGR's rule took care of the poor, the downtrodden, and the middle class. I have faith that I, too, can provide that… — Rajinikanth Copy Share Image
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated,… — Dave Van Ronk Copy Share Image
I believe that we do best when the middle class is doing well. And by giving them those tax cuts, they had… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
In seven years, we'll have the highest percentage of Americans non-native born since the founding of the republic. And some people think,… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
College costs continue to rise, and student loan debt threatens to price many Americans out of a college education and out of… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
With Americans worried about losing their jobs, their savings, their homes and their chance at the American Dream, the New Direction Congress… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
Given the fact that poverty is growing, more and more Americans are losing health insurance, health care costs are going up, the… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“once the Republicans won control of North Carolina’s general assembly. In a matter of months, they enacted conservative policies that private think… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
The desperately poor may accept handouts, because they feel they have to. For those who consider themselves at least middle class, however,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image