Middle class Quote by Guy Standing

The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of…

— Judith Warner

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

— Orson Scott Card

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

Why certain political classes want purposefully to keep Americans in a state of perpetual debt and uncertainty and why certain people don't want a…

— John Hodgman

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to…

— Cass Sunstein

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

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can…

— Elizabeth Warren

I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it…

— George Saunders

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard…

— Chrystia Freeland

The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are,…

— Robert Menzies

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

— Bruce Braley