Middle Class Quotes - Page 21

• This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Children, Opportunity

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

  Robertson Davies

  Class, People, Mind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Beauty, Class, People

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.43, Northwestern University Press

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• Obviously, our most pressing need is subsistence for the most vulnerable victims of Katrina, but we should not overlook the fact that the victims of Katrina also include middle-class Americans who have saved and invested, but now face an economic crisis, .. They should be able to tap into their savings and meet this crisis without facing an unfair penalty.

  Artur Davis

  Class, Saving, Able

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• In the hierarchy of colors, green represents the social middle class, self-satisfied, immovable, narrow.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Self, Color, Class

  Wassily Kandinsky (1970). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art: And Painting in Particular”

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• Wes Clark put forward a middle-class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle-class families, none without minor children at home. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

  Joe Lieberman

  Children, Home, Class

  "Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Justice, Diversity

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.814, Delphi Classics

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• In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.

  Matthew Arnold

  Home, Lost Ones, Class

  Matthew Arnold (1874). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.378

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• One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.

  Will Rogers

  Recovery, Class, Two

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.

  Nick Kroll

  Fun, Kids, Class

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Class, Growth

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.

  Barack Obama

  Stars, Opportunity, Order

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Self, Class, Two

  "Spock Mugged" by Wilfrid Sheed, www.nytimes.com. January 7, 1973.

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• If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Class, Fiction, World

  "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

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• My mom was a pretty hard worker. She worked her ass off, but I'd say we were middle class. I had a car in high school, so I loved the idea that I could mimic this lifestyle.

  Reggie Watts

  Mom, Hard Work, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was born and raised in the University of Chicago area and had an uneventful middle-class Catholic childhood. I had a heavy Catholic upbringing and Catholicism is terrible - it's the reason there were slaves. Mass every morning at seven o'clock during Lent. It's a totally negative, man-made religion.

  Chaka Khan

  Morning, Men, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Children, Class, People

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• Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

  Ed Miliband

  Thinking, Views, Class

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• Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.

  James Laver

  Fashion, Class, Clothes

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• That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, America, England

  A Word About America (1882)

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• I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, America, Lasts

  Hillary Clinton's economic policy speech, May 29, 2007.

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• We don`t have a manufacturing base. We don`t have a middle-class jobs growing at all. All we have is a few rich people and a service industry to service them.

  Chris Hayes

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.today.com

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• In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Real, Character

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2001.

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• I get upset when so many people say there are all sorts of problems in Africa and India where they have these big families. They don't realize that 10 children in rural Tanzania will use less natural resources in a year than one middle class American child. People don't think like that.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Thinking, Years

  "Exclusive Interview with Dr. Jane Goodall". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to say so, we can survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists, and photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education, and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the dominant idea of an information economy isn't improved.

  Jaron Lanier

  Pain, Class, Ideas

  Jaron Lanier (2014). “Who Owns the Future?”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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