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Middle Class Quotes by Robert Reich
- 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 Class Quotes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am. — Joe Biden
- 'Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.' Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to… — Joe Biden
- My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a… — Lewis Black
- You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor. — Michael Bloomberg
- The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was… — Julian Bond
- They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. — H. Rap Brown
- If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further.… — Warren Buffett
- Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying… — Abdallah II
- In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have… — Julia Child