Middle Class Family Quotes - Page 2

• I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.

  Ainsley Earhardt

  Girl, Country, Class

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

  Mike Royer

  Summer, Art, Real

  "Interview: Mike Royer Talks Classic Cartoons, Jack Kirby and Much More". Interview with Bryan Stroud, comicsbulletin.com. January 30, 2015.

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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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• The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

  Russ Feingold

  Jobs, School, Kids

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• Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

  Larry McMurtry

  Children, Sibling, Night

  Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

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• I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

  Patty Murray

  Country, Moving, Fighting

  "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

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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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• I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

  Suresh Raina

  Real, School, Class

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• I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Mean, Commitment, Fighting

  Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.

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• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Mind, Special

  "Obama Tells Republicans to 'Sit in Back'". Speech, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2010.

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• In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

  Barack Obama

  Responsible Business, Class, Environmental

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• In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gasoline Prices, Class

  Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.npr.org. August 30, 2012.

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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, Class

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

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• I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

  Anupam Kher

  Sports, Father, Class

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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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• 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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• I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

  Suresh Raina

  Class, Actors, Able

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Talk Asia" Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2007.

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• This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Country, Hurt

  Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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• When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Issues, Class, Goal

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs program since World War II, jobs in infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, Ends, Middle

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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