1970s Quote by Mario Cuomo

For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase…

— Lindsey Graham

American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few…

— Os Guinness

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class,…

— David Axelrod

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

— John F. Kerry

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

— William Julius Wilson

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

— Hillary Clinton

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

— Nancy Pelosi

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

— Hillary Clinton

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

— Suze Orman

We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the…

— James Fallows

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

— Bernie Sanders