Quotes About Middle class

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.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.

When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.

Africa is not for the weak-hearted: infrastructure issues are there. The middle class is absent in most of the countries. We have to cater to the low end of the market to grow.

Because I came from the working class, I still identify with them. I don't identify with the middle class.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

If it's conservative to say we need to help the middle class, then I'm a conservative.

I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.

It's very difficult for the middle class in America to keep up because of the inflationary pressure and the devaluation of the dollar.

China, with its large emerging middle class, is among the big beneficiaries of globalization.

Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we've got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.

I find the middle classes kind of boring. The middle class has kind of been beaten like a dead horse by fictional writers. It's old news, and literature is supposed to bring new news, and for me, I feel I have to go as far out as I can to try and tell the kind of stories I want to tell.

There is greater income inequality in the United States than in any other industrialized country. Yes, the debt is a problem that must be dealt with. To me, however, the disappearing middle class is even worse - bad for our economy and really bad for our democracy.

What has always made the Clintons great politicians and better people is their unyielding commitment to expanding the middle class for everyone.

We believe that if you want a strong middle class, you have to vote for Democrats.

Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

As the death of the middle class of film has happened, it has been re-birthed in television.

I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.