Always Quote by Tom Junod

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

“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive…

— Ellen Cushing

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

First of all, what we [in USA] need to understand is the middle class is what makes us different and exceptional. Every country has…

— Marco Rubio

I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we…

— Philippe Coutinho

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called…

— Jon Kyl

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The middle classes have a truly extraordinary conception of society. They really believe that human beings . . . have real existence only if…

— Friedrich Engels

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.

— Timothy Noah

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

— Nita Ambani

'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

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from…

— Barbara Ehrenreich