Age Quote by Keith Ellison

Progressive policies lead to a regressive society.

— Ilana Mercer

Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies that help…

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“And after generations of redistributive progressive income and inheritance taxes, the economic elite was losing its lead. Income in America during the mid-1970s was…

— Jane Mayer

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system,…

— Fareed Zakaria

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

— Trish Regan

When I was in high school, it was sort of the peak of progressive education.

— Michael Penn

The American middle class used to be envy of the world. It was a byproduct of economic freedom. We had a very dynamic free-market…

— Peter Schiff

Aided by the Great Society and the New Deal, the middle class grew, everywhere from Winnetka to Orlando to Humboldt.

— Annie Lowrey

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

— Hillary Clinton

The urbanising middle class of the 1960s and 1970s had schools, hospitals, roads, energy services, even cultural institutions - all created by the state,…

— Rohini Nilekani