Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on,… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
“My confusion about the separation between the servant class and the upper middle class revealed a quintessentially American point of view. Status… — Eboo Patel Copy Share Image
I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
One thing I love about America is that I'm not boxed in by my upbringing here. England is still so class-based that… — Tom Payne Copy Share Image
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle… — Larry Bucshon Copy Share Image
“We may say, in a broad way, that Greek philosophy down to Aristotle expresses the mentality appropriate to the City State; that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“What we strive to restore and re-animate will never come from the promises of the middle class politicians, but will come instead… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
I myself have not met a self-confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit,… — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
“No one disputes that college has gotten a lot more expensive. A recent Money magazine report notes, “After adjusting for financial aid,… — Glenn Harlan Reynolds Copy Share Image
What the Democrats have done is tell the poor and the middle class that the Democrats are looking out for 'em. Democrats… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make… — Chuck Schumer Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher has one great advantage - she is a daughter of the people and looks trim, as the daughter of the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
We knew we had to act for the middle class. We immediately went out and rescued General Motors. We went ahead and… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“the welfare states of western Europe were not politically divisive. They were socially re-distributive in general intent (some more than others) but… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The trajectory of this country [USA] is not positive and particularly for the disadvantaged, as we see what's happening. The gains in… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
My father grew up with no money. He was raised in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the U.S. My mother helped… — David Lauren Copy Share Image
“We have seen, then, that certain socioeconomic changes, notably the decline of the middle class and the rising power of monopolistic capital,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Humans aren’t going to do anything in time to prevent the planet from being destroyed wholesale. Poor people are too preoccupied by… — Aric McBay Copy Share Image
“Graham states, “Because average country income levels do not matter to happiness, but relative distances from the average do, the poor Honduran… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Now, that's not my analysis. That's the analysis of economists who have looked at this. And, and that kind of top, top-down… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Really unreflective people are now inwardly without Christianity, and the more moderate and reflective people of the intellectual middle class now possess… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
“No,” I start, hesitantly. “Well, we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, but certainly will… — Terry Savage Copy Share Image
The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Do we want more of the same regulatory mission creep that has helped to harm America's poor and middle class? Do we… — Mike Lee Copy Share Image
What we have seen for a very long time is large corporations shutting down plants in this country, plants that are often… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There were a number of reasons I decided to join the New York City Police Department back in 1984. I felt a… — Eric Adams Copy Share Image
70% of children born into poverty will never make it to the middle class. The uncomfortable truth is that there are now… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
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