Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The billionaire class fully understands what is at stake. That's why a handful of them are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
First of all, I don't have a $5 trillion tax cut. I don't have a tax cut of a scale that you're… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I want to make it very clear that this middle-class tax cut, in my view, is central to any attempt we're going… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Stuff Happens.’ That’s the G-rated version. That’s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made.… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Our parents and grandparents understood this truth deeply. They believed - as we do - that to create jobs, a modern economy… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I was very aware of performers who have a persona, whether it's Siouxsie Sioux or Patti Smith or Lydia Lunch, and I'm… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“The desires our little family couldn't afford to indulge had never seemed important, only snobbish and silly and somehow misplaced, like Thurston… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I have a lot of really close, important friends of mine who live in Los Angeles and a lot of good things… — Jay Baruchel Copy Share Image
The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
As a person, I am still very middle class. People don’t realise these things. Most of the black suits that I wear… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
I think we need to insist on a certain responsibility, which people have - particularly those who have made it into the… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The middle class in the rich countries is where the political game is being played. They are voting in elections in the… — Branko Milanovic Copy Share Image
Things are getting worse. You know, when you look at this campaign, and you realize the enormously serious issues this country faces,… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“Those upper classes, to rule, needed to make concessions to the middle class, without damage to their own wealth or power, at… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
We're the highest taxed nation in the world. Our middle class is just reeling from the taxes. And you know, if you… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Remember 'The Brady Bunch' TV show? That 1970s family had a full-time live-in housekeeper called Alice. Mrs. Brady worked at the PTA… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
This is a guy [Steven Lerner] who believes, for example, that Reaganomics or trickle-down economics means, "The rich got rich by stealing… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because… — Barbara Mikulski Copy Share Image
The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
If India is an emerging economy with millions of new consumers, sell them the Volvo. Sell them the Cielo car. Sell them… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
For most of the 20th century, we didn't just enjoy economic success in Michigan, we defined it. Our innovators and entrepreneurs created… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
Affirmative action is the most important antidiscrimination technique ever instituted in the United States. It is the one tool that has had… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“Americans, whether armed or not, were still looking everywhere but at social class when parsing the texture of their lives. It wasn’t… — Dan Baum Copy Share Image
I was born into no true class and it was my decision early in life to insinuate myself into the middle class… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates… — Bobby Schilling Copy Share Image
It was a competitive examination [in Boston Latin School]. Poor kids, Brahmans, middle-class kids. The masters, as the teachers were called, didn't… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I think it is important to acknowledge the extent to which the black middle class tends to rely on a kind of… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“A quantified family would be upper middle class. Likely working in big tech,” said Theodore. “Their employers would have required it.” Piece… — Matthew De Abaitua Copy Share Image
Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered… — James P. Hoffa Copy Share Image
I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It was expected of all good middle-class Indian people to build India and, as you know, Indians - when we say, 'build… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
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