Middle Class Quotes - Page 4

• We need a Democratic Party open, that is bringing working people into the party, that is bringing young people, that bringing all of the people of this country who are sick and tired of an economy that works well for the 1 percent while the middle class struggles.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Party, Struggle

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.

  Branko Milanovic

  Country, People, Problem

  Source: gawker.com

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• You know, our country's being ripped apart. And let me tell you, this is largely an economic issue, too. You know that workers, hard-working people, middle class people, haven't had a salary increase effectively in 12 years, all right? So for 12 years, they're making less now in many cases than they made 12 years ago.

  Donald Trump

  People, Economic, Let Me

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Giving, Prosperity

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I will be the greatest jobs president that God has ever created. The tax relief will be concentrated on the working and middle class. I will be president for all Americans.

  Donald Trump

  President, Taxes

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• My father loved to complain about big business and big government, but we had a solid middle class upbringing. We had good public schools. We had accessible health care. We had our little, you know, one-family house that, you know, he saved up his money, didn't believe in mortgages.

  Hillary Clinton

  Father, Believe, School

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Mother, Teacher

  Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

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• Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, Ends, Middle

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs program since World War II, jobs in infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jobs, War, Opportunity

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

  Hillary Clinton

  Class, America, Growth

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.

  Henry Giroux

  Class, Comfort, Finance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100 days of my administration. And this legislation quickly includes Middle Class Tax Relief and Simplification Act.

  Donald Trump

  Fighting, Class, Administration

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Issues, Class, Goal

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I intend to work with President [Donald] Trump on those issues where he will, in fact, work for the middle class and working families in this country. I will vigorously oppose him if he appeals to racism or sexism.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Issues, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.

  Keith Ellison

  Struggle, Should Have, Class

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The conversation should've been about middle class people. The conversation should've been about how to raise the minimum wage and strengthen Social Security. But then we started talking about this whole email stuff again. And now the outcome is that, you know, Donald Trump has somebody who he's looking at to put on his Cabinet who's a lobbyist to privatize Social Security.

  Keith Ellison

  Talking, Class, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think Donald Trump understood that there are many millions of people in America, the working middle class, who are really hurting. They are in pain.

  Bernie Sanders

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Children, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to make college tuition-free for the middle class and debt-free for everyone else.

  Hillary Clinton

  College, Class, Debt Free

  "Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Discuss Student Debt, Immigration, and More". Interview with Judith Ohikuare, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 11, 2016.

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• I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.

  Reid Hoffman

  Thinking, Class, Plight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Black men in ghetto communities (and many who live in middle class communities) are targeted by the police at early ages, often before they're old enough to vote. They're routinely stopped, frisked, and searched without reasonable suspicion or probable cause.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Men, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Middle-class white children, children of privilege, are afforded the opportunity to make a lot of mistakes and still go on to college, still dream big dreams. But for kids who are born in the ghetto in the era of mass incarceration, the system is designed in such a way that it traps them, often for life.

  Michelle Alexander

  Dream, Children, Mistake

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A country's middle class is its bedrock.

  Philip Kotler

  Country, Class, Middle

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I went off to college, a good, middle-class, very proper college, a Brethren institution, where two years of Bible study are required for graduation. It was a good, sound, thorough, but completely biased evaluation of the Bible, and I was delighted with it, because it helped to document my doubts; it gave me a framework within which I could be critical.My independent study continued for 20 years after this. So I do know the Bible very well from a Protestant point of view.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Independent, College, Years

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• I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you by; it translates into a great sense of personal frustration that can then morph into political frustration.

  George Saunders

  Frustration, Class, Political

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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