Middle Class Family Quotes - Page 3

• Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing knives.

  George Gilder

  Children, Ghetto, School

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.132, Regnery Publishing

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• I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Class, People

  "Congress Barrels Toward Fiscal Cliff". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2012.

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• Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

  Charles Schumer

  Dream, Monday, Morning

  Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

  Rick Larsen

  Jobs, Class, America

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• I grew up in a very loving middle class family. My parents were educators. I'm not even the first PhD in my family. They tried to shield me, just as other parents in my neighborhood tried to shield their children. But you knew there was a reason that you couldn't go to that theme park or to a movie theater or to a hamburger stand. They couldn't shield you completely. What they did though was they never let it be an excuse for not achieving, and they always said racism is somebody else's problem, not yours. They tried in that way not to make us bitter about Birmingham.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Children, Class, Racism

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• You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

  John le Carre

  Dirty, Mean, Boys

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• Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Years, Class

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