Middle Class Quotes
621 Middle Class quotes by 431 unique authors
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The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.
— Marco Rubio
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The idea that more taxes and more government spending is the best way to help hardworking middle class taxpayers - that's an old idea that's…
— Marco Rubio
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Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class…
— Marco Rubio
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They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid. I didn't inherit…
— Marco Rubio
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This opportunity - to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life - it isn't bestowed on…
— Marco Rubio
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In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. Noises made by a truck driver from…
— Salman Rushdie
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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
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The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.
— Bernie Sanders
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The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the…
— Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast…
— Howard Schultz
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Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights…
— Charles Schumer
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Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.
— Charles Schumer
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But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.
— Charles Schumer
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We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are…
— Charles Schumer
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
— George Bernard Shaw
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What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job; with him taking care of so…
— Charlie Sheen
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We've always been in favor of improved wages for workers. When you have a strong middle class, they want to buy more stuff at Costco.
— James Sinegal
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Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free…
— Alexander Skarsgard
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Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
— Benjamin Spock
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Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only…
— Gloria Steinem
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The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
— Andy Stern
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It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes,…
— William Graham Sumner
Who Wrote These Middle Class Quotes
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