I had a very easy middle class upbringing and never had to worry about anything. But my parents came from nothing and… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies… — Debbie Wasserman Schultz Copy Share Image
I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when… — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
People who know the economy is rigged in favor of big money, people who know that our middle class continues to decline… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original… — Peter York Copy Share Image
“the hollowing out of the middle class since the 1970s, a phenomenon interrupted only briefly in the 1990s, means that those families… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I saw my father deal with every headache the government threw his way - whether it had to do with the signs… — Ann Wagner Copy Share Image
In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
What we're looking for in a president, most importantly, is leadership. A person that will actually stand up and fight for the… — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
When I say dirt-poor, I mean Mom made maybe $25,000 a year. I remember buying milk with food stamps. Vividly. So, growing… — Jason Sehorn Copy Share Image
One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send… — James Sinegal Copy Share Image
I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been… — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“The Islamic movement in Egypt, from the late 1970s, managed to occupy the political space in the country that had been the… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Our parents busted their butts to make us feel like we weren't broke and in our neighbourhood we were probably more well… — Fred VanVleet Copy Share Image
We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Growing up we never had the best house on the block, the best car, or the most money, but one thing I… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Today’s middle class lives better than did the Royalty of not so long ago, and yet humans today don’t seem very happy.” — Russ Harris Copy Share Image
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm… — Alexi Giannoulias Copy Share Image
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy… — Paul Tonko Copy Share Image
Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Since Day 1 of his candidacy, Donald Trump has divided our country and threatened our democracy, attacked the middle class and alienated… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone. — James Carville Copy Share Image
Left-leaning policies - I'm 52 years old, I've been to Cuba, I've been to dysfunctional state oriented places - left-leaning policies fail… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in… — George Andrew Olah Copy Share Image
Barack Obama destroyed the middle class. Whatever you want to say about his rhetoric, the rich got richer, but the poor got… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
In the run-up to the 1992 Democratic convention, Clinton's campaign realized that voters thought the young governor had a privileged upbringing. They… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image