Middle Class Quotes

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That's me and my dad and my family.

I love my cross-sectioned, cross-cultural audience. Some of them are doing better than the average guy, but my audience has always been people who are struggling to stay in the middle class.

You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

Coming from Paris, I'd really like to live in Rio. I think it's gotten better. It's not as violent. The economy is better. The middle class is rising.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

From New Hampshire forward, for reasons that absolutely mystified me, the press thought the most important issue in the race was the middle class tax cut. I never did meet any voter who thought that.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class.

I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

By eliminating the tax breaks and special interest loopholes that primarily benefit the wealthy, our framework ensures that the benefits of tax reform go to the middle class, not the highest earners.

People who want to act rich when they're upper-middle class. They try too hard.

We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

It's possible to be a woman married to a very wealthy, powerful man but to be relatively disempowered. Not just relative to him, relative to a middle class woman who works.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Rich or poor, money rules with an iron fist.

Silence descended on the house. [....] Amma must have sensed that this was the sort of silence that, left unchallenged, could consume the family from within.

When you have no choice, you have no discontent either.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Illiteracy is the innability of a person to learn. It is not all about the innability to read or write as the middle class regards it.

It’s time someone said it, average living (read middle-class) is not good enough