Class Quote by Patricia Schroeder

Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the beginning.

— Gore Vidal

“Republicans have succeeded with a social agenda that gets people to vote against their own interests while the Democrats are so elitist that they…

— Peter Applebome

Our greatest leaders - both Republicans and Democrats - have recognized the power of a strong and growing middle class.

— Roy Cooper

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people…

— Henry Rollins

We believe that if you want a strong middle class, you have to vote for Democrats.

— Brian Schatz

We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions…

— Carly Fiorina

Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

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

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

— Collin Peterson

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

— Judith Warner

They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald