Middle Class Quotes - Page 23

• We have a lot of problems in this country. It's going to put pressure on the budget and we're going to have to make some hard decisions. But the decisions we make are to prioritize the middle class.

  David B. Axelrod

  Country, Decisions We Make, Class

  "Bill Clinton, campaign strategists, Colo. Senate debate". Meet the Press Netcast, www.nbcnews.com.

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• The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity.

  Grayson Perry

  Thinking, Objectivity, Class

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• While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Struggle, Fighting, Class

  "Stop Coddling the Super-Rich" by Warren Buffett, www.nytimes.com. August 14. 2011.

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• Nothing good can come from the Federal Reserve. It is the biggest taxer of them all. Diluting the value of the dollar by increasing its supply is a vicious, sinister tax on the poor and middle class.

  Ron Paul

  Class, Dollars, Poor

  "End the Fed". Book by Ron Paul, September 16, 2009.

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• I only went along to youth theatre with a friend when I was young to try to make myself a bit more sociable. But the whole thing was quite sore; it really hurt me trying to get into drama school. It was a world I knew nothing about - it was very middle class; all that usual stuff. But I was young, determined, and I just went for it.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Hurt, Drama, School

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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 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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• In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Karma, Believe, Class

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• Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.

  Cesare Pavese

  Class, People, Behaviour

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• Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy - so utterly without a sense of humor?

  Katherine Mansfield

  Class, Sense Of Humor, Middle

  Katherine Mansfield (2011). “Bliss”, p.13, Penguin UK

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• Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Struggle, Thinking, Class

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Anti-smoking sentiment has replaced middle-class morality entirely. The smoker has taken the place of the homosexual. Today you hear people say things about smokers that used to be said about homosexuals - they pollute the environment; you don't want them around your children.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Children, Taken, Class

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• Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Class, Middle, Unlimited

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• There is far too little discussion in Washington about the collapse of the middle class , almost no discussion at all about the incredible income inequality and wealth inequality in this country, and the fact that we're moving toward an oligarch form of society.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Moving, Class

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  They talk about class warfare -- the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years. It's a handful of billionaires taking on the entire middle-class and working-class of this country. And the result is you now have in America the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on Earth and the worst inequality in America since 1928. How could anybody defend the top 400 richest people in this country owning more wealth than the bottom half of America, 150 million people?

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Class, America

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• The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

  Brian Grazer

  Weekend, Class, People

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• In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.

  Zoe Saldana

  Class, Ladders, Levels

  Source: movieweb.com

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• We [the Republicans] help the middle class when we unburden them from the very policies that Hillary Clinton would double down on. She champions Big Government, which we know enables crony capitalism and exacerbates inequality. If you are wealthy, powerful and well-connected, you can handle Big Government.

  Carly Fiorina

  Powerful, Government, Class

  "Reynolds: Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• I have advocated for rolling back regulations, simplifying the tax code and moving to zero-based budgeting - policies that will support small businesses and raise up the middle class.

  Carly Fiorina

  Zero, Moving, Class

  "Carly Fiorina, the other woman". Interview with Glenn Harlan Reynolds, www.usatoday.com. July 19, 2015.

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• The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true.

  Pope Francis

  Class, Differences, World

  "Pope says his economic message isn't class warfare, it's church doctrine". Press conference, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2015.

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• I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

  Blake Bailey

  Cities, Oklahoma City, Ethos

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• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Health, Recovery

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• Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.

  Carol Browner

  Color, Class, Community

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• Witnessing Panama's overnight transition from banana republic to middle-class retirement haven is like watching the Univision version of Extreme Makeover: it feels so tacky but you can't change channels because you just have to find out what happens next.

  Andrew Evans

  Retirement, Class, Republic

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• This country is facing an economy that has been radically transformed.And these changes have been disruptive. They have changed people's lives. The jobs that once sustained our middle class, they either don't pay enough or they are gone, and we need someone that understands that as our nominee.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Jobs, Class

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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