Class Quote by Christian Morgenstern

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the…

— Elizabeth Warren

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household…

— Alissa Quart

“I once heard Jerry Yang, the cofounder of Yahoo!, quote a senior Chinese government official as saying, "Where people have hope, you have a…

— Thomas L. Friedman

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The reason I talk so much about the middle class is it's the glue that holds America together. It really is. And we don't…

— Joe Biden

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group…

— Sloan Wilson

Middle-class economics is the simple idea that the economy performs best when the benefits of economic growth are broadly shared, not isolated to a…

— Brian Deese

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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

— Eliot Engel

Middle-class economics means helping working families feel more secure in a world of constant change.

— Barack Obama