“Americanism in all its forms seemed to be trashy and wasteful and crude, even brutal. There was a metaphor ready to hand… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
“i was really into communal living and we were all / such free spirits, crossing the country we were / nomads and… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian… — James Laver Copy Share Image
“They taught us to manage money and how to et a good price for our eggs, chickens or pigs. We used to… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
The black middle-class in America is a prosperous community that is now larger in absolute terms than the black underclass. Does its… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The Poverty Tour provided the opportunity to meet many people who had been living paycheck to paycheck even before the economic downturn.… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the… — Sanam Saeed Copy Share Image
In America, we're being stripped of our jobs, our good jobs are really good down, and we've got to stop it. And… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to… — Ellen Tauscher Copy Share Image
The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 -… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The notion of a healthy society, of capable people who are able to enjoy life, arose in the liberal, middle-class, leftist and… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
It's a peculiar thing about liberals. When it comes to middle-class people who are fully capable of caring for themselves, liberals seek… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning… — Fabrizio Moreira Copy Share Image
The biggest single thing China needs to do is build an emergent middle class and domestic consumption, and the best way to… — Peter Navarro Copy Share Image
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn… — Gary Locke Copy Share Image
“I came to New York because I was fleeing from the double-wide baby stroller, from the culture of respectability of the bourgeois… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
It's important to save your money. We need it for the long haul but too many Americans don't save and don't invest.… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I've never met two guys who're more down on America across the board. We're told everything's going bad. There are 5.2 million… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
First, I was so dazzled and besotted by India. People said the poverty was biblical, and I'm afraid that was my attitude,… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Although the advice that you get if you got to see Margaret is 'stand up for yourself, shout back, and argue the… — Julian Critchley Copy Share Image
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remember just how formal middle-class life was in the 1930's and '40s. I wore a suit and tie… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism… — Mary Pattillo Copy Share Image
This kind of inequality - a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
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