Elizabeth Warren Quotes About Middle Class

Quotes about: Middle Class

• The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

  Elizabeth Warren

  Hard Work, Class, America

• The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Money, Numbers, Years

  "The Professor". Interview with Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. September 17, 2012.

• Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Mom, Heart, Men

• Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Class, Way, Anger And Fear

  "America Without a Middle Class". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• Get out of debt. In a world of stagnant incomes and rising core expenses like mortgage and health care costs, that's a lot easier said than done. The middle class is under enormous pressure. But families can stop the bleeding by reducing their reliance on debt wherever they can. They can also start fighting back by taking a hard look at whom they do business with and rethinking whether they want tricks-and-traps banks to hold their money. They can also demand that public officials take the side of families over the side of banks.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Fighting, Class, Care

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don't think politicians can afford to be complacent.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Thinking, Class, America

  Interview with Ruth Conniff, progressive.org. December 27, 2009.

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