Middle class Quotes · Page 6

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

— Kate Brown

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

— George Bernard Shaw

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big…

— Virat Kohli

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

— Virginia Postrel

We called ourselves '2 Too Many' because we only had enough money for one of us.

— Troy Carter

I feel unions are important because they built the middle class, and they can preserve the middle class.

— Marty Walsh

Instead of giving corporations a big tax cut, let's give the middle class a real, permanent tax cut.

— Kamala Harris

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

— Ken Cuccinelli

I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.

— Kangna Ranaut

Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions…

— Andy Stern

My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got…

— Pam Houston

The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class...…

— Nancy Pelosi

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…

— Jonathan Lethem

I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for…

— Barack Obama

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards…

— Tom Vilsack

My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a…

— Arundhati Roy

A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker…

— Marcy Kaptur

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

We need to get the government out of the way. Inflation hits the middle class and the poor the most. Those are…

— Ron Paul

“The surpluses will have to be expended somehow, and trust the oligarchs to find a way. Magnificent roads will be built. There…

— Jack London

When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in…

— Stephen Marche

You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live…

— Douglas Coupland

I had a happy childhood in a nice suburban area, pretty idyllic, upper middle class and very, very white. My dad is…

— Anthony Jeselnik

What's happening is, there's transfer of wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. This comes about because of…

— Ron Paul

I think the ultimate challenge is to have some kind of style and grace, even though you haven't got money, or standing…

— Madonna Ciccone

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.

— George Foreman

An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

— Benjamin Disraeli

When you cut investments in worker training, you're cutting investments in the middle class.

— Tom Perez

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

— Paul Ryan

“I grew up in the valley of that mountain, just poor enough that I could imagine a way out.”

— Kevin Wilson

Coming from a middle-class family in Hyderabad, I was an introvert. I chose to be the way I am.

— Tabu

I am a low-key girl from a middle-class family of a small village.

— Hima Das

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

— Chris Martin

I have a different perspective on public services to most middle-class professionals on the left.

— Wes Streeting

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

— Elizabeth Warren

“My mom often said "We're not poor, we just don't have much money.”

— Les Cochran

When it comes to taking responsibility towards the society, the middle class will be the first people to shirk it.

— Anonymous

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

— Eliot Engel

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear.

— Kinky Friedman

I was born in the middle of the century in the middle of the country, a classic Baby Boomer.

— Mitt Romney