Class Quotes - Page 18

• We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Years, Goal

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

  Paul Ryan

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "Exclusive: GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Night, Sun

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.414, Ballantine Books

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• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  Carl Sandburg

  Taken, Textbooks, Literature

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• The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Needs, Middle

  "Sanders seeking to ban Wall Street CEOs from regional Fed boards" by Alexander Bolton, thehill.com. January 9, 2013.

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• I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto. But it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom.

  Bobby Sands

  Ghetto, Boys, Spirit

  Republican News, December 16, 1978.

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• Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

  Margaret Sanger

  Fashion, Children, Men

  Family Limitation introduction (1914)

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• I was a good pupil at primary school: in the second class I was writing with no spelling mistakes, and the third and fourth classes were done in a single year.

  Jose Saramago

  Mistake, School, Writing

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• George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I'd come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don't even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.

  Steven Wright

  Home, School, Albums

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• Sex education classes are like in-home sales parties for abortions.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Education, Sex, Party

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• The economic recession in America wasn’t caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Jobs, Loss, America

  "New Hampshire Debate: News & Updates From GOP Presidential Forum". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Pain, Sacrifice, Order

  "Interview with DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz" by John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 2, 2011.

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, People

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• With a population of more than 600 million people, an emerging middle class that is driving strong consumption, and a robust and resilient economy, Southeast Asia presents a compelling growth opportunity for Starbucks.

  Howard Schultz

  Strong, Opportunity, People

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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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• Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

  Charles Schumer

  People, Middle, Democrat

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• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Party, Eye, Thinking

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• We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

  Charles Schumer

  People, Needs, Pay

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• My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

  Martin Scorsese

  Book, School, Italian

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• I'm a world-class people watcher. I like to watch people's body movements, their expressions. It says so much about them.

  Jill Scott

  Expression, People, Watches

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• There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

  Jill Scott

  Senior, Teacher, Art

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• Once the working classes were in chains, now they're in chain restaurants.

  Will Self

  Restaurants, Chains, Working Class

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• If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Alcohol, Firsts, Strength Of Will

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• Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

  Donna Shalala

  Kids, Years, Graduates

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• I go to yoga classes and work on my core.

  Maria Sharapova

  Yoga, Core

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