Class Quotes

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.

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

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

Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.

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.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.

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.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally.

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.

Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

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.

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

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Of course we can talk about the radical potential of youth. But in the U.S. it is still the case that most youth are conservative and not very sympathetic to the working class.

The main dividing line is still race. This is the issue that must be focused upon in all working class organizations.

Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

Fortunately for me, I did not take any science classes in college.

[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door.

But I was 22 before I took my first dance class. I had never been athletic, so I was very stiff; I still am. I think what I got mostly from dance was carriage.

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

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

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

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.

A country's middle class is its bedrock.

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.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

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

the principles of political economy have elevated the working class above the place they ever filled before.

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

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.