Quotes About Opportunity

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

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.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

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.

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Federal government has been a gateway to the middle class for people of color for generations.

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

My parents climbed their way to the middle class.

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

In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less.

Both in Raleigh and in Washington, middle class shouldn't mean second class.

Our inaction created the opportunity for the Russians to reenter the Middle East in a powerful way for the first time since 1973.

I can tell you there will be a performance centre in India. There will be a performance centre in the Middle East. There will, more than likely, be a performance centre in Latin America. We will be replicating this process around the globe, all over.

I'm an immigrant. I'm from the Middle East.

I did the plays in middle school. I was cast as a gate in my fourth grade play, and every year I got a bigger role. Then, in 7th grade, I played Smike in 'Nicholas Nickleby,' and the casting director saw me and asked me to audition for a movie. That movie led to me getting 'Moonrise Kingdom.'

You shouldn't be learning how to code when you're middle-aged. You should be learning how to code when you're a kid.

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It's too middle-aged, white, and male.

I come from a middle-class family, where you grow up thinking about government service. But when I went to Harvard, I saw that entrepreneurs and business leaders were just like me. It gave me a feeling that I could also do such things.

I came from a very middle-class family and had to take out loans to go to college. I was really shocked when I arrived at school at the difference between those who had money and those who didn't.

I used to track back from midfield but I never saw myself as a defender. Dave Jones thought I could do the job and then Glenn Hoddle after that. He showed a lot of faith in me and told me, even back then, that I had the ability to play for England.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.

We all make mistakes. But I'm lucky. Being from Illinois and from the Midwest, we believe in pretty basic fairness. Once you've made a mistake, get up, dust yourself off, and go to work.

This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.