Middle Class Quotes - Page 33

• A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Queens, Adventure

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie [Sanders] got to this idea of the vanishing middle class sooner and with more passion than more mainstream politicians, and benefited from it. The difference, of course, is that Bernie understood this in a more compassionate framework, and talked about it in conjunction with a revitalization of another part of the American project, which is the notion that we are all created equal, and that our laws and culture and action ought to reflect that.

  George Saunders

  Passion, Law, Class

  Source: sojo.net

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• "Marginalized others" have access to other ways of knowing, and therefore to deeper, more authentic truths about human reality. They can share that knowledge by speaking about their lived experience while in a safe space. But to provide this kind of safety, members of privileged groups, i.e. white, able-bodied, cis-gendered middle class men, must keep quiet.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Reality, Men, Class

  "Is Modern Academic Feminism Harming Women?". Interview with Clay Routledge, www.psychologytoday.com. September 4, 2016.

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• You need governance, but you also need a middle class, you need agriculture, they need to be able to export. I think that's probably the biggest issue, the job creation that could come with the kinds of things that Haiti has all the potential in the world to export.

  Sean Penn

  Jobs, Thinking, Class

  "A Minute With: Sean Penn on 'Gunman,' Haiti and superheroes". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. March 11, 2015.

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• In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private schools. We're turning into Victorian England at a very rapid rate.

  Robert Hass

  School, Class, California

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.

  Jane Mayer

  Hate, Government, Class

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Opportunity, Class

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

  Jill Stein

  Growing Up, School, Illinois

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

  Manmohan Singh

  Daughter, Brother, Powerful

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• If you really look, it's not a tax - it's really not a great thing for the wealthy. It's a great thing for the middle class. It's a great thing for companies to expand.

  Donald Trump

  Class, Looks, Middle

  "Episode 726: Terms of the Debate". www.npr.org. September 27, 2016.

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• I think building the middle class, investing in the middle class, making college debt-free so more young people can get their education, helping people refinance their - their debt from college at a lower rate. Those are the kinds of things that will really boost the economy.

  Donald Trump

  College, Thinking, Debt Free

  Source: time.com

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• I can only say that I'm certainly relieved that my late father never did business with Donald Trump. He provided a good middle-class life for us, but the people he worked for, he expected the bargain to be kept on both sides.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, Class, People

  "Trump vs. Clinton: Full Transcript Of First Presidential Debate 2016". www.ibtimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• What I believe is the more we can do for the middle class, the more we can invest in you, your education, your skills, your future, the better we will be off and the better we'll grow. That's the kind of economy I want us to see again.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Class, Skills

  Transcript: First presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.cbsnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Let's stop for a second and remember where we were eight years ago [in 2008]. We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s. That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wall, Eye, Eight

  Source: time.com

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• Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, Independent, Blow

  Source: time.com

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• This country of ours, this system of ours, the rule of law, the opportunity to get an education and go as far as your hard work and ambition will take you, and we created the biggest engine of economic growth in the world, the American middle class.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Hard Work, Ambition

  Source: time.com

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• When the middle class thrives, the country thrives, and when it doesn't, we don't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Class, Middle

  Source: time.com

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• I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, Proud, Middle

  "Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class". "PRE News & Ideas" by Kelly Mcevers, Tamara Keith, publicradioeast.org. October 3, 2016.

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• The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Real, Class

  "Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcverth, www.npr.org. October 3, 2016.

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• In America, We have surrendered our middle class to the whims of foreign countries. We take care of them better than we take care of ourselves.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Class, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not themselves members of the middle class, not by a long shot, which means they've searched for other ways to prove to voters that they care about their concerns and understand what middle class workers are going through.

  Tamara Keith

  Mean, Class, Long

  "Clinton, Trump Present Starkly Different Messages On The Middle Class". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 3, 2016.

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• The difference in the way Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump talk about the middle class is stark. For Clinton, it's a story of hope. For Trump, it is a story of loss.

  Tamara Keith

  Loss, Class, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Colombia has a big market that is growing because we are elevating people out of poverty and into the middle class.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Class, People, Growing

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• You [Republicans] are not going to cut taxes. You're going to raise taxes on the middle class.

  Tim Kaine

  Cutting, Class, Republican

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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