Both Quote by Roy Cooper

I ran for Governor to change the priorities in Raleigh because middle class shouldn't mean second-class.

— Roy Cooper

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.

— Karl Lagerfeld

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

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

— Ayn Rand

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

— H. Rap Brown

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

— Margaret Halsey

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new…

— Alissa Quart

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he…

— Dave Van Ronk

There is quite a lot of mutual misunderstanding between the upper middle class and the working class. Reviewing what's been said about the white…

— Timothy Noah

You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.

— Joel Stein

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road.…

— Christian Morgenstern

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the…

— Elizabeth Warren