Middle class Quotes · Page 13

My mom and dad separated around 11. We started poor, then got to middle class and then went back to being poor.

— Ruben Gallego

I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets,

— Anonymous

No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

— Aristotle

I lived below the official American poverty line until I was 31.

— Dustin Hoffman

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

— Margaret Halsey

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the…

— Bob Cousy

My parents never really had that much money, so I kind of live in the same world that they do.

— Margaret Cho

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

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional…

— Mamata Banerjee

Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are…

— Darryl Pinckney

“The rise of the global middle class will be the most significant economic event to occur on our planet this century, yet…

— Asher Judah

“To be a white middle-class child in a small southern town must be on certain levels the most golden way for a…

— Joan Didion

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you…

— Danny DeVito

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and…

— David Axelrod

I started out, our family was very affluent. My dad saw to it that we weren't. And now that I've made it…

— Scott Bessent

An increased push for energy efficiency, renewable energy technology, electric mobility - along with the growing digitalization movement and a universal carbon…

— Joe Kaeser

I think what Donald Trump is saying to people is that America has way more leverage at the negotiating table than America…

— Anthony Scaramucci

Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class…

— Barack Obama

We're bankrupting our country and we have an empire that we're trying to defend which costs us $1 trillion a year. And…

— Ron Paul

It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at…

— Barack Obama

I'm not going to tell people that I will raise your incomes and not your taxes, and not mean it, because I…

— Hillary Clinton

“Why would affluence make him mad?" "Maybe he's mad that this is as good as it gets. Your big house. His good…

— Lionel Shriver

The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make…

— Barack Obama

Forest Hills was a middle-class neighborhood filled with snobby rich people and their screaming brats.

— Joey Ramone

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14.

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Our greatest leaders - both Republicans and Democrats - have recognized the power of a strong and growing middle class.

— Roy Cooper

Since the whole village was poor, we didn't realize our own poverty. I was happy.

— Bidzina Ivanishvili

The sense that materialism has gotten out of hand is magnified by the pressures facing middle-class American families.

— Robert Wuthnow

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

— Michelle Dean

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

— Billy Corgan

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

— Michael Bloomberg

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

— Arianna Huffington

Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.

— Marco Rubio

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

— George Bernard Shaw

When monetary policy destroys the currency, it always destroys the middle class.

— Ron Paul

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.

— Anthony Scaramucci

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

— R. A. Salvatore

The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.

— Joe Biden

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

— Charlaine Harris