Our argument is everybody ought to be paying lower rates, and we ought to be focused on growing the economy and rebuilding… — Steve Scalise Copy Share Image
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor… — Marty Meehan Copy Share Image
Crippling student loan debt doesn't just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because… — Ana Kasparian Copy Share Image
There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I've known what it's like to survive without a steady job. Growing up in the Philippines, I watched my parents juggle part-time… — Arnel Pineda Copy Share Image
We didn't have a whole lot of cash growing up. My mom was a single parent for a while before my stepdad… — Chris Young Copy Share Image
I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some… — Jerry Jones Copy Share Image
“In 1863, as Havana continued to grow, the need for expansion prompted the removal of the city walls. The Ten Years’ War… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different.… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“once the Republicans won control of North Carolina’s general assembly. In a matter of months, they enacted conservative policies that private think… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Bush and the corporate kleptocrats have stomped on too many people and left too many people out of the system, and those… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
The day Bengali cinema lost touch with literature and started aping the south, the middle class audience stopped going to the cinema… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I don't know what to think of the money. It's kind of mind-boggling. I come from a middle-class, blue-collar family. We've never… — Pat Burrell Copy Share Image
The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions. — Faye Wattleton Copy Share Image
Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, 'Oh, here comes Tom Clancy, bestselling author.' But… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Make no mistake: Republican tax cuts for the rich will bankrupt our country - and it's the grandkids of the middle class… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, they're one of the main forces keeping publishing in this country a primary white middle-class industry,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me in… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion. — Bruce Braley Copy Share Image
Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight. — Betty Carter Copy Share Image
I think, and I mean this sincerely, I was raised humbly. We were a lower middle income family and a household that… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
