It's so easy for anyone to deal with their own guilt of being a middle-class white music fan by pointing to other… — Ezra Koenig Copy Share Image
“the weakness of the middle class is holding back tax receipts, especially because those at the top are so adroit in avoiding… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
That we could live in a country with no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, and no middle class… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up to become a mechanic - but some of my classmates did. And they've been able to build good,… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
I come from a middle-class South Indian family, and we speak Tulu at home. I never led a lavish life, and I… — Pooja Hegde Copy Share Image
Almost all of my early art dealt with the fallout from middle-class taboos, the messy, the ambivalent emotions couples felt, the inherent… — Eric Fischl Copy Share Image
One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices,… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country… — George Noory Copy Share Image
Whereas the property-owning middle class could win freedom for themselves on the basis of rights to property--thus excluding others from the freedom… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of… — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not… — Lance Loud Copy Share Image
The truth is there are people who are quite informed who still vote against their interests. I would argue that, as a… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
“The reality is that the rich are not taxed. It’s the middle class, especially the educated upper-income middle class, who pays for… — Robert T. Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
When I first started working on 'The Wood,' these people couldn't grasp the concept that, one, there is a black middle class,… — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have… — David B. Axelrod Copy Share Image
I'm not saying everything was better in the old days; it wasn't. We had no Lottery funding to give us money to… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Well I'm a no goodnick lower middle class brat, back packed and I don't give a shit about nothing. You be standing… — Sum 41 Copy Share Image
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
I wasn't the smartest in school - I was always sort of middle of the class - but when it came to… — Harry Wilson Copy Share Image
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class. — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
It is very easy for middle-class people who come from moneyed backgrounds not to understand what it's like for people when they… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
“Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
