I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think… — Robert Reich 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
We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Growing up in Buffalo, I saw shuttered factories that once housed thousands of steel manufacturing jobs. I remember the hollowing-out of the… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit, and it wasn't… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular… — Don Alias Copy Share Image
What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Nonwhite and working-class women, if they are ever to identify with the organized women's movement, must see their own diverse experiences reflected… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
For TPP to get my vote, it must benefit America's middle class, raise wages, and safeguard the consumer and environmental protections that… — Dan Lipinski Copy Share Image
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“In 1863, as Havana continued to grow, the need for expansion prompted the removal of the city walls. The Ten Years’ War… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba 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
Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
If the American people make their voices heard and put enough pressure on Congress, we can restore fairness in our economic system,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just… — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
The middle class today would be poor by the standards of the 1950s. Today, with two people working, they would still live… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image