Middle Class Quotes - Page 20

• Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.

  Kamala Harris

  Hurt, Class, Enforcement

  "Kamala Harris slams Romney on housing" by Drew Joseph, www.sfgate.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore…Still, I've always believed—still do—that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside.

  Kim Gordon

  Fashion, Class, Icons

  Kim Gordon (2015). “Girl in a Band”, p.113, Faber & Faber

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• I believe the middle class game is dead.

  Cliff Bleszinski

  Believe, Games, Class

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• I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.

  Billy Eichner

  New York, Children, Class

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• A Recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

  Curtis Jackson

  Class, People, Majority

  "50 Cent Talks About Getting Rich And 'The 50th Law' On CNBC (VIDEO)", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2009.

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• I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.

  Charles Kimbrough

  Mother, Father, Class

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.

  Thomas P.M. Barnett

  Class, Political, Statistics

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• Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Class, Birth, Middle

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• Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.

  Peter York

  Attitude, Class, Style

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• Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.

  Peter York

  Children, Book, Animal

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• England is strictly class-based. What's surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

  Stephen Daldry

  Running, Silly, Garden

  "Stephen Daldry Dances to Success with 'Billy Elliot'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 17, 2000.

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

  Lavrenti Lopes

  Class, Everyday, India

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• The conversation of most middle-class Americans, we are told, revolves around consumption: what to buy, what was just bought, where to eat, the price of the neighbor's house, what's on sale this week, our clothes or someone else's, the best car on the market this year, where to spend a vacation. Apparently we can't stop eating, shopping, or consuming. Success is measured not in terms of love, wisdom, and maturity but by the size of one's pile of possessions.

  Brennan Manning

  Vacation, Maturity, Years

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.45, Multnomah

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• I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

  Julia Child

  Class, Kind, Innocent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I`m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Mean, Class

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• We're going to have to invest in the American people again, in tax cuts for the middle class, in health care for all Americans, and college for every young person who wants to go. In businesses that can create the new energy economy of the future. In policies that will lift wages and will grow our middle class. These are the policies I have fought for my entire career.

  Barack Obama

  Cutting, College, Class

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• For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

  Lindsey Graham

  Technology, Years, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think that is the fight that we have to wage if we're to save the middle class. And I do have doubts about whether Hillary Clinton or whether any Republican candidate out there is prepared to take on the big money interests who control so much of our economy and as a result of Citizens United, our political process as well.

  Lindsey Graham

  Fighting, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Inequality is bad for everyone, not just the middle class and the poor.

  Robert Reich

  Class, Poor, Middle

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• No economy can continue to function when the vast middle class and everybody else don't have enough purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing without going deeper and deeper into debt.

  Robert Reich

  Class, Debt, Enough

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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• I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere".

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Hands, Class

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

  Martin O'Malley

  Class, Growth, Stronger

  FaceBook post by Martin O'Malley from Jul 22, 2015

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• Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and better infrastructure and healthcare. You're basically robbing the middle class and the poor to provide tax cuts to the rich.

  Robert Reich

  School, Cutting, Class

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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