Middle Class Quotes

We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.

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 a break.

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did.

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

What I want to do is make sure middle class kids, not Donald Trump's kids, get to be able to afford college.

I'm running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

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 American bargain should work

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

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 speak enough to their legitimate concerns.

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.

Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

At the same time, it's people that are employed - many folks - but they're still not earning enough to get into the middle class.

Our message of strengthening the middle class, working people, we just didn't penetrate well enough and we didn't have the kind of turn out that we really needed or expected.

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

We can talk about corporations all day long but my goal is to help the middle class, somebody who makes too much to be on government assistance but still lives paycheck to paycheck.

I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers, and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

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

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.

We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong.

The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

Our middle class majority, deeply in personal debt, elects political leaders who increase our benefits. Then we vote them out because we dislike the soaring national debt.

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.

If Donald Trump had said something like I'm going to raise taxes on the middle class, it would be all over the news. You would be questioning his sanity.

First of all, she Hillary Clinton is going to raise taxes on the middle class. I actually think that's the only truthful thing she's said in about three weeks.

As long as there's anybody that's poor or middle class, there will not be satisfaction that there are rich people. Not 'til we get rid of all the rich can we say we have finished the job.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.