Poor and most middle-class people believe "If I have a lot of money, I could do what I want and I'd be… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks… — James Vance Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step.… — Denis de Rougemont Copy Share Image
Believe me, having served two great presidents, when the fog of uncertainty that surrounds the crisis storms into the White House and… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what.” As he described them, they were… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread… — Michael Francis Moore Copy Share Image
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is.… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Every day should be Labor Day. We have to fight for the basic proposition that apprenticeship is a wonderful ticket to the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I wish to be focused on kind of the business stuff I'm doing, how do I contribute to our economic progress, how… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
The urbanising middle class of the 1960s and 1970s had schools, hospitals, roads, energy services, even cultural institutions - all created by… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“This was a group that lived their lives steeped in unbelievable anger. They were either poor or less rich than they thought… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
There's a false choice being put forward by some Democrats now. Either we double-down on our progressive values, or we go out… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I think I was meant to be a musician who speaks his mind about social justice issues. And I grew up in… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
They're pushing the continuation of a tax cut that will give an additional $500 billion in tax cuts to 120,000 families. And… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor… — Jack Kelly Copy Share Image
I'm a nice middle class public schoolboy who underachieved and wasn't going anywhere fast. I didn't get any GCSEs or A-levels. But… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the… — Jim Clifton Copy Share Image
Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners.… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up.… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger… — Robert B. Reich Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
And so whether it's failing to move forward on the Dream Act, failing to move forward on putting teachers back to work,… — David Plouffe Copy Share Image
The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and… — Abdallah II of Jordan Copy Share Image
The Bush Republicans' policies are, the antithesis of patriotic. And so we urge Democrats to reclaim patriotism - to call on all… — Paul Begala Copy Share Image
In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image