Middle Class Quotes

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

The depth of the middle class is waning as the polarization of society is in progress.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

The Democrat Party makes as many people victims as possible because it freezes them right where they are. And that's usually in lower middle class or abject poverty. It makes them resentful.

I understood that these trade agreements were going to destroy the middle class of this country. I led the fight against us. That is one of the major differences that we have.

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class.

My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

The middle class is not doing well, and trade policy might have something to do with that, and so someone who is going to be fixated on those things, who has a business background, has some appeal.

If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

The middle class in America has been devastated.

I know hedge-fund guys that are making hundreds of millions of dollars a year and pay no tax. And I want to lower [tax] for the middle income. The middle class in this country has been decimated.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.

I realized early I can manipulate the ceiling in the middle class. The allure becomes how far I can make the ceiling rise.

Wes Clark put forward a middle-class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle-class families, none without minor children at home. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

I can tell you I'm pretty middle-class.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

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

The future and the hope for the middle class church lies in the renewal of its lifeblood, which is only possible if the church succeeds in winning the working class.

Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

Mark Kirk: Lied about going to war. Opposed middle class tax cuts. And said unemployment's not that big an issue.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

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 about.

Even when uttered by Democrats, "middle class" often sounds like a mealymouthed way of saying, "Us, and not them," where "them" includes poor people, snake handlers and those with pierced tongues.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

There are too many people trying to take opportunity from people in the middle class.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.

When in one area of the world the standard of living and the size of the middle class increases, it is going to have an effect elsewhere in the world as well.

I grew up sort of middle class, safe and suburban.