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We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote democracy, not…

— Bernie Sanders

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

— William Julius Wilson

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

— Elizabeth Warren

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

— Vladimir Putin

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

— Hillary Clinton

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant…

— Deborah Kass

If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that…

— Abhijit Banerjee

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Far from an excess of majority rule, American democracy has seen the rise of minority rule, with efforts to entrench it in the states.

— Jamelle Bouie

Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have been,…

— Ivan Krastev

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

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