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Middle Quotes by Robert Reich
- When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to…
- The only way America can reduce the long-term budget deficit, maintain vital services, protect Social Security and Medicare, invest more in education and infrastructure, and…
- A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and…
- America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.
- We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small…
- Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor
- No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is…
- I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to…
- Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who…
- Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
- As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships…
- A Democratic president should propose a major permanent tax reduction on the middle class and working class. I suspect most of the public would find…
More Middle Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made… — Jensen Ackles
- I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last… — Peter Ackroyd
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon
- I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver… — Tammy Baldwin