No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
“She [Jo Spence] appeared in a photograph, taken for a series entitled Class Shame, holding a placard on which was written: 'Middle… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we… — Jennifer Palmieri Copy Share Image
I remember I grew up in a poor family and we had almost nothing and we were not treated very well by… — Luis Negron Copy Share Image
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else… — John Prescott Copy Share Image
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Millionaires are just as patriotic as poor people. The very wealthy are just as noble and patriotic as the middle class. But… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Contrary to the rhetoric emanating from the American left, the 'rich' are currently paying a lot more than 'their fair share.' It… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The pathway to housing should be fair and equitable for everyone, and access to affordable housing is the infrastructure people in our… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we… — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her… — Sisqo Copy Share Image
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led… — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton wrote an Op-Ed for a paper in Iowa about her plans to help the middle class. Middle-class Americans said, 'Why… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
It is also very important to observe, that menial servants are absolutely necessary to make the resources of the higher and middle… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington. — Gary Peters Copy Share Image
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand. — Peter Welch Copy Share Image
We came from a poor, poor family and for them to see me winning a trophy in front of 90,000 people and… — Emiliano Martinez Copy Share Image
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden… — Peter Jurasik Copy Share Image
I told the American people that I'd cut taxes for middle class families, and I did. I told you I'd cut taxes… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one… — James Ransone Copy Share Image
“Only the very rich and the very poor enjoy sex with a careless, indifferent abandon…only those of us in the middle class… — Suzanne Rindell Copy Share Image
I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I hail from a middle class educated family and now that God is kind to me by giving me enough money, I… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor… — Charles Schumer Copy Share Image
The CDO was, in effect, a credit laundering service for the residents of Lower Middle Class America. For Wall Street it was… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“Racial attacks on liberalism shifted the enemy of the middle class from big money to lazy minorities, and transmuted economic programs that… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image