Middle class Quotes · Page 10

“In this city, the rich had some room, and the middle class had less, and the poor had none.”

— Vikram Chandra

To me, greatness does not mean mortgaging the future of our middle class by giving tax cuts to our wealthiest citizens.

— Tom Malinowski

I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.

— Lily Allen

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

— Mario Cuomo

We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.

— Criss Angel

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

— Anonymous

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American middle class.

— HL Mencken

“All of us were poor, and no amount of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles memorabilia would change that”

— J.D. Vance

The anger from Occupy Wall Street is coming from this simple fact: America no longer seems to be a place where you…

— Meghan McCain

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing…

— Donald Trump

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for…

— Robertson Davies

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

— Aristotle

He had a carrying, congressional sort of voice, the kind that sounded good saying things like Less of a tax burden on…

— Maggie Stiefvater

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the…

— Steve Wynn

The difference between Justin Trudeau and myself is I have had real world experience. I haven't just read books on the middle…

— Andrew Scheer

My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should…

— Alan C. Greenberg

When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping…

— Richard Benjamin

We have a long and proud tradition as a nation of investing in our human capital so that we can build a…

— Tom Perez

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria…

— David Miliband

The truth is that Africa is like everywhere else. There are poor areas, there are rich areas, there is a middle class.…

— Masai Ujiri

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits…

— David Mamet

'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to…

— Joe Biden

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

— Larry Gagosian

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.

— Sebastian Pinera

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

— Matthew Arnold

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

— Cecelia Ahern

Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.

— Bill Foster

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

— James Ellroy

To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot…

— Louise Erdrich

We grew up no frills, is how I would say it. We were going to be fed, sheltered and educated.

— Robby Hoffman

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

— Nick Hanauer

We will squarely deal with wealth distribution towards the middle class.

— Fumio Kishida

I come from a humble background, where my family was struggling to be called middle class.

— Badshah

Me and Iggor come from poor upbringings. We're broke, never had any money.

— Max Cavalera

My parents didn't have much money growing up, but they always had a budget for books.

— Tim Ferriss

“Love is for middle class", Fellows said."The poor can't afford it, and neither can the rich.”

— Jennifer Ashley

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

— Marc Andreessen

Uncertainty and fears of social decline and exclusion have reached the middle class in many societies.

— Jose Angel Gurria