He's a wealthy man, a very wealthy man. If you have a half a million-dollar purchase from Tiffany's, you're not a middle-class… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The report of this made me exceedingly angry, for I could not see why information which a middle-class woman could get from… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
In Bolivia, the middle class, intellectuals and the self-employed are proud of their Indian roots. Unfortunately, some oligarchic groups continue to treat… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
USDA is committed to keeping pace with the needs and progress of American agriculture by supporting new markets and movements that will… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw… — Naveen Tewari Copy Share Image
The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent… — Damian Lewis Copy Share Image
Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
I think it's time we had a President who will provide the only real economic security: good jobs. A President who will… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
It may not be replicable: One of the hardest transition that a developing country can make is the transition to middle-class status.… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
I suspect the Left's obsession with raising tax rates is not about helping the poor or middle class or about lowering the… — Stephen Moore Copy Share Image
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as median income; there's a curve, and it really matters what side of the curve you're on. There's… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
The inability of middle-class people to receive loans in developing countries has had a stifling effect on economic growth and prosperity around… — Joe Lonsdale Copy Share Image
We are committing ourselves to basic protections of our people... We will not permit banks to repossess the homes of working class… — Alexis Tsipras Copy Share Image
In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret… — Munira Mirza Copy Share Image
But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor… — Susan George Copy Share Image
I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that… — Susan Bysiewicz Copy Share Image
I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their… — Jay IDK Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class struggles in debt is that the… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“We had, you could say, everything but money -- Grandmam and I did, anyhow. We had each other and our work, and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing,… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
My father was also interested in stocks. When I was a young child, he and his friends would drink in the evening… — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Copy Share Image
“When the poor are converted into consumers, they get more than access to products and services. They acquire the dignity of attention… — C.K. Prahalad Copy Share Image
People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I… — Brian Friel Copy Share Image
