Middle Class Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• If you're a rich guy, the best thing you can do is demand tax increases on the rich. That way the poor guy will leave you alone. The middle class and the poor will leave you alone.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Class, Guy, Demand

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate" votes of suburban, white, middle-class, affluent males. Even liberal voters and organizations tend on some tacit level to accept the idea that they are not the "real" Americans the Democrats must pursue.

  Ellen Willis

  Real, Class, Organization

  "The Democrats and Left Masochism". "New Politics", Vol. 8, No. 3, issue #31, Summer 2001.

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• I quite like the transitions of being an actor, because you get to explore these little pockets of life. So if you're playing a builder you get to know about building, if you're playing a scientist or a physician or something you get to know about physics. And similarly with this world I like exploring their culture, that very sort of upper middle class, addictive... that's part of the reason I love it.

  Matt Smith

  Class, Pockets, Physicians

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

  Mary Brave Bird

  White, Class, Use

  "Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.

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• The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

  Alan Hirsch

  Religious, Jesus, Adventure

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.92, Baker Books

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• By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.

  Robert Kuttner

  Home, Nursing, Class

  "The Economic Illusion". Book by Robert Kuttner, 1984.

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