Politics Quote by Ross Douthat

“The tale of America coming out of the Great Depression and not only surviving but actually transforming itself into an economic giant is the…

— Elizabeth Warren

“The problem was not that Americans spent beyond their means but that their means had not kept up with what the larger economy could…

— Robert B. Reich

“It was the American middle class. No one's house cost more than two or three year's salary, and I doubt the spread in annual…

— Michael Francis Moore

“The downward pressure on the incomes of the West’s middle classes in the coming years will be relentless.”

— Edward Luce

“The most immediate is that our middle class is too weak to support the consumer spending that has historically driven our economic growth.”

— David Cay Johnston

“the big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.”

— Barack Obama

“We can get a lot more things pushed through when the American people are sidetracked with concerns over their finances. Obama’s guys proved that…

— Tim LaHaye

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

“American’s capacity for real estate improvement; build yourself a house, grow fat in it, and die.”

— Norman Mailer

“Imagine, for a moment, if his administration had been willing to invoke its newly minted democratic mandate to build the new economy promised on…

— Naomi Klein

“We must never forget that the settlement of what is now the United States was only part of a larger enterprise. And this was…

— Paul Johnson

“The biggest threat to American power in the long run is the persistent decline in its middle class standard of living today.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour