This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The rich did not care who ruled, as long as they were allowed to be rich. The poor could not afford to… — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
Most middle-class Americans, even working-class Americans, encounter each other across racial lines all the time, but it gets really hard-core when you… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
We don't have a manufacturing base. We don't have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“We believe some people are more special, more beautiful, more capable, more influential, more intelligent, more gifted, and have a greater capacity… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“The story of Ayman Al-Zawahiri (head of Al-Qaeda following Osama bin Laden's killing in May 2011), his transform ation from a successful… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
“Wait long enough, and what was once mainstream will fall into obscurity. When that happens, it will become valuable again to those… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
We have a choice: we can allow the growing disparity between rich and poor to continue unimpeded, or we can take action… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class… — William Julius Wilson Copy Share Image
By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
And I will repeat today what I have said throughout this campaign. I will not raise taxes on the middle class. I… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Im graduating high school next year and I'm going to be heading off to college if Romney wins what is my middle-class… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours - I hardly ever saw him… — Eddie the Eagle Copy Share Image
I intend to work with President [Donald] Trump on those issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
You know, its interesting to me that so much of the population is living under the poverty line, but when you look… — Kim Wayans Copy Share Image
My parents have always been supportive. I come from a very simple middle class family, where the upbringing is very traditional. So… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III Copy Share Image
While I was in university, my father became very ill and my father was unable to work. We needed to pay the… — Jagmeet Singh Copy Share Image
“It was a house halfway between this and that, between upper-middle-class luxuries and absentminded squalor. My father had been too distracted, while… — Justin Evans Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
People like to focus on a narrow stereotype, like if we didn't have football then we wouldn't have made it, ... The… — Jonathan Vilma Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Because I work quite slowly, I have to keep myself interested over a long research and writing period. So I can't see… — Stef Penney Copy Share Image
![“[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.” quote by Rush Limbaugh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/921/rush-limbaugh-28_achieve_steven-lerner-said-that-unions-and-commu_93067.jpg)
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