Middle class Quotes · Page 14

Back then, we didn't know we were poor, and people were more proud then.

— Loretta Lynn

We believe that Americas prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class.

— Barack Obama

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

— Martin O'Malley

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

— Hillary Clinton

“This one-two punch—flat incomes and rising expenses—has hit the middle class squarely in the gut. Beginning”

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Anita Brookner

My parents had nothing - just basic wages for all their hard work.

— Phil Taylor

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging…

— Rodney Crowell

I lived in a kind of a middle class home, and I didn't really have a lot of experience with the justice…

— Maya Moore

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I…

— Scott Storch

Some liberals think that describing any role that education gaps play in creating income inequality is some sort of sellout - that,…

— Timothy Noah

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very…

— Charles Kimbrough

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's…

— Ellen Tauscher

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and…

— Suresh Raina

The Enlightenment diamond-shaped society, with a huge, prosperous, socially-mobile, empowered middle class, is by far the most productive and creative system the…

— David Brin

“There is good reason for pervasive middle-class angst. Financial insecurity has been written into the DNA of the New Economy. Not only…

— Hedrick Smith

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for…

— Stephen King

My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good…

— Hillary Clinton

Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using…

— Rush Limbaugh

It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of…

— Angela Davis

Gallup defines a good job as 30+ hours per week for an organization that provides a regular paycheck. Right now, the U.S.…

— Jim Clifton

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I lived for two years in an abandoned gas station with no running water and no electricity after my parents got divorced…

— Kyrsten Sinema

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

— Theodore C. Sorensen

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

— Tim Kaine

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

— James Altucher

Growing up in Charlestown, we didn't have money, but we weren't poor either.

— Howie Long

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

— F. Sionil Jose

I grew up in a middle-class family in Jamaica, I had no self-worth issues whatsoever.

— John Barnes

Retired public service workers make up the backbone of the middle class in so many of our communities.

— Lori Lightfoot

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

— Bruce Braley

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

— Ralph Fiennes

I'm just a regular upper-middle-class guy who happens to be a billionaire.

— David Tepper

In Obamas America, being 'poor' means having everything the middle class has, just not having to pay for it!

— Anonymous

Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no…

— Mignon McLaughlin

I come from a family that doesn't have a whole lot of money.

— J. D. Vance

I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

— Eric Greitens

I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.

— Mike Quigley

Since I became Liberal leader, I've focused on building a better Canada for the middle class.

— Justin Trudeau