Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in… — Jackie Speier Copy Share Image
Our traditional stories are based on an aristocratic model without a middle class, whereas The Arabian Nights reflect people living in cities,… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
We were an underprivileged family. My parents were both tailors. We got by. But we only had a few important things in… — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
“We'd all turn our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politicians seem desperate to appeal to their respective versions of the so called 'middle class,' unable to empathise with the precariat and… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“You can see this everywhere you go: young middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making to much noise in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Shorn of unattractive language about "robots" who will be producing taxes and not burglarizing homes, the general idea that schools in ghettoized… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
This is unconscionable. There is no need for this. The middle class got knocked on their heels. The great recession crushed them.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The structural changes of globalization and automation that has created concentrated wealth among some people who have had the right skills and… — Ro Khanna Copy Share Image
“As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi — at the time party general secretary — smiled down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrée of the spouses to their… — Germaine Greer 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
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you… — Jo Brand 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
Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they… — Kevin O'Leary Copy Share Image
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class...… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for… — Barack Obama 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
My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents would apologize when we didn't have enough money for something. I'd always tell them that… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
I'm Latino, progressive, and I have deep roots in the working class - my father was a bracero, a guest farmworker and… — Jimmy Gomez Copy Share Image
My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I am a Midwestern Democrat, which I believe means practical, reasonable, willing to work across the aisle and focused on the economy… — Elissa Slotkin Copy Share Image
I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The government is committed towards helping the poor and neo- middle class with the success mantra of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas. It… — Narendra Modi 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
There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
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