Middle Class Quotes - Page 35

• The Mexican people are increasingly middle class, and Mexico has substantially become a middle-class society. This is true despite the significant poverty, and the class and geographic inequality that have deep historical roots.

  Alan Bersin

  Class, Roots, People

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Media, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class.

  Bernie Sanders

  Winning, Class, People

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 29, 2016.

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• For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Mean, Winning

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of which is a huge recreational drug market. It's the favoured place to live in the UK for first division criminals.

  Peter James

  Gay, Class, Two

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Many social critics wag their fingers at what they perceive to be frivolous luxury spending. But that misses the point that consumption norms are local. It's not just the rich who spend more when they get more money. Everyone else does, too. The mansions of the rich may seem over the top to people in the middle, but the same could be said of middle-class houses as seen by most of the planet's seven billion people.

  Robert H. Frank

  Class, Luxury, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Setting aside labels, I am somebody who believes that government in a democratic society should be representing the needs of the vast majority of the people who are middle-class and working families.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Government, Class

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so many serious problems, when the middle class and working class of this country are being decimated, that there were not voices out there representing the tens of millions of people who needed a voice. And the idea of going through a campaign where there is not a serious discussion about the most important issues facing America, where there are not voices out there representing people who are hurting - that seemed to me unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Hurt, Light

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Actually the royal family were very gracious and good to me. But I also found that the British establishment were never quite sure what to make of me. I was a Labour figure, but I'd come from a very middle-class background. In one sense I offended both traditional right and traditional left. But I thought that was no bad thing.

  Tony Blair

  Class, Never Quit, Royal

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Labor unions have a long history of benefitting all workers, even those who are not members of unions, because everyone's wages go up. If we don't increase membership - and membership in labor unions is going down because of the attacks against organized labor - it's something every single American, whether they're officially in a union or not, should be concerned about. It's a spiral. It's a weakening of the middle class and our economy can't sustain that.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Long, Wages

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.

  Nina Turner

  Home, Winning, Class

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• When you look at how men and women are living together, there are two processes at work. One, women are rising in the middle class; their earning potential is rising compared to men. It has been underway for 100 years, and nothing is going to stop it. On the other hand, women are denied iconic positions of power - equity partnerships law firms, Hollywood salaries.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Hands, Years

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump, when he gives his speeches, talks like a populist. And he talks to middle class and working America and poor people. But when he governs, at least in his first 40 days, he governs like a hard-right guy.

  Charles Schumer

  Class, America, People

  "After Speech To Congress, Trump Holds Meeting With GOP Leaders". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, wxxinews.org. March 1, 2017.

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• [Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Wall, Class

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Wall, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You just overwhelm the system with so many dependents and so many middle class benefits having to be paid that the money isn't there. It causes a system-wide collapse, capitalism implodes upon itself, and somebody comes into the breach and restructures the government as a socialist utopian paradise - and the guy's dead serious about it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Government, Class, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• This is a guy [Steven Lerner] who believes, for example, that Reaganomics or trickle-down economics means, "The rich got rich by stealing from the poor," or stealing from the middle class and making them poor via debt. He has worked with unions in Europe.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Our job as Americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. You can get ahead. Doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. Our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and then make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the American dream. That's what we got to fight for. That has to be the north star that guides everything we do.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Responsibility, Hard Work

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• We are seeing a working-class, a middle class, which over the last three decades has seen their wages and income stagnate, while the very rich have seen their tax burden lighten in ways not seen in three or four decades. It's a face of a country that we need to look at and understand that inequality is perhaps the greatest threat to our economic recovery and democracy, and in that context we must take action.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Recovery, Democracy

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• The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.

  Julian Bond

  Atlanta, Class, Guy

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• They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

  H. Rap Brown

  Class, Middle, Divides

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• If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper-middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

  Warren Buffett

  Cutting, Thinking, Class

  "Make more than $250k? Obama wants you to pay more in taxes, like it or not" by Ed Hornick, www.cnn.com. April 14, 2011.

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• In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless.

  Julia Child

  Mother, Children, Nice

  Interview with Polly Frost, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2009.

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• We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

  William J. Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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