Middle Class Quotes - Page 15

• The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Winning, Class, Play

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• I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

  Rick Larsen

  Class, Support, Relief

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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 feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis.

  Rana Dasgupta

  Class, Wealth, Middle

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• That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.

  William J. Clinton

  Happiness, Rich Or Poor, Class

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• I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Class

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• The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Class, Issues

  "Tim McGraw: I'm 'a True Southern Populist Kind of Democrat'". www.foxnews.com. October 16, 2006.

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• I used to think most Democrats in Congress who voted for [ObamaCare] really believed they were doing something good for the poor and the middle class. Now I wonder. It's crystal clear that just about everything President Barack Obama promised about his health plan was false, his deception deliberate. If Democrats really cared for the people harmed by the law, you'd think they'd admit their mistake, try to fix it. They haven't.

  Jack Kelly

  Mistake, Thinking, Law

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• You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

  Jack Kelly

  Writing, Class, Hypocrisy

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• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Willie Stargell

  Sports, Children, Team

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• I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, White, Benefits

  "Interview with the Vamp". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. August/September 1995.

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• All great men come out of the middle classes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Class, Middle

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.138, Harvard University Press

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• Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Real, Practice

  A More Perfect Union, delivered 18 March 2008, Philadelphia, PA

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• My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Jobs, Children

  "Oprah Talks to Daniel Pink". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2008.

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• So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to go to a very polite mental hospital. When I left eight months later, they said, 'You were never psychotic. You were just an average neurotic.'

  Allen Ginsberg

  Nice, Jail, Eight

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• Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

  James Altucher

  Class, Entrepreneur, Robots

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• One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Money, Struggle, School

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.24, Robert Kiyosaki

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• The benefit of living in a free society is that we all have the choice to be rich, poor, or middle
  class. The decision is up to you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Class, Choices, Decision

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as natural and habitual as hoeing a field or building a house.

  Virginia Woolf

  Spring, Writing, Practice

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “The Common Reader”, p.344, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The kind of people I myself represent in parliament; salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers and so on, these are, in a political and economic sense, the middle class. They are for the most part unorganised and unselfconscious.

  Robert Menzies

  Business, Men, Class

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• We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Top Down, Class, Needs

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• Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Thinking, Class, People

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• Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Men, Noble Man

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• We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Jobs, Real, Home

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