Middle Class Quotes - Page 6

• I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."

  Greg Mottola

  Heart, Scary, Pet

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• We no longer have a significant middle class in the US due to Barack Obama's job-killing ban on oil drilling in Zion Park. While a small middle class remains in the coastal blue states, our tax bill devastates them by curbing deductions for state and local taxes and large mortgages. In a few years, everyone except the 1% will be a tricklee.

  Gary Cohn

  Mortgage, Significant, Taxes

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• The Democrat Party is threatened by people whose economic circumstances improve to the point that they do not need government first and foremost. That's a threat. But this happens when the U.S. economy is humming. There is a lot of upward mobility, and people leave the lower depths of poverty and start traversing a pathway through the middle class to the upper middle class, and as they leave, the Democrats have to replace them. That is what illegal immigration has been since 1965 when Ted Kennedy reintroduced the whole concept after 40 years of no immigration from 1921 to 1965.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, People, Immigration

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• One of the things I really worry about is that if you don't see middle class wage growth, if you don't see the economy in certain areas of the country, the middle part of the country, starting to come back in the same way that it's doing especially well, let's say, in California or New York, then people are going to become politically frustrated.

  James Vance

  Country, People, Worry

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• When the president talks about tax reform, he talks about the people who will benefit. He talks about American jobs. He talks about the fact that we're going to be taking money that's overseas and bringing it back to the United States so that it will employ American workers. I think that focus again on the American working and middle class is- is-is to me the most thoughtful and, in some ways, the most genius part of Trump's approach to politics.

  James Vance

  Thoughtful, Thinking, People

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• I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are really market-driven policies designed to punish the poor, the working classes, and the middle classes by simply distributing wealth upwards.

  Henry Giroux

  Thinking, People, Realizing

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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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• Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

  Abdallah II

  Moving Forward, Class, Years

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• I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Class, Effort, Ordinary

  "Tales of the city". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2003.

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• I’ve decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what’s right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

  Tammy Baldwin

  Running, Powerful, Believe

  "Tammy Baldwin Announces Senate Run In Wisconsin" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

  Joe Biden

  Who I Am, Class, Guy

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• Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard. We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn't have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That's not a tax raise. That's called fairness where I come from.

  Joe Biden

  Cutting, Class, Dollars

  "CBS Uncritically Promotes Obama Campaign's Attack Hinting Romney is 'Less than Truthful'". Interview with Nancy Cordes, www.newsbusters.org. October 5, 2012.

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• My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a substitute teacher. Together, they worked really only until they were sixty.

  Lewis Black

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Lewis Black Is Mad as Usual and He's Going to Take It" by Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. November 2, 2010.

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• You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Class, Poor, Middle

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• A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Strong, Class, Digging

  "Special Coverage for the DNC". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2008.

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• These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

  Rupert Everett

  Queens, Gay, Class

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• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  E. M. Forster

  Children, Class, Literature

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• I'm convinced that Sanford and Son shows middle-class America a lot of what they need to know.

  Redd Foxx

  Son, Class, America

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• I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

  Al Franken

  Hard Work, Class, Promise

  "Fighting For America’s Middle Class, Netroots Nation 2011" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2011.

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• It's not white versus black any more, it's haves versus have-nots. Unless the black middle-classes unite to promote the interests of the black underclass, tension between them is inevitable. What we, the black middle class have to do, is think of a strategy to avert that.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Class, White

  "The biggest brother". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Opportunity, Class, Dysfunction

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• Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Children, Class

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• The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Rights, Class, Black

  "The biggest brother" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

  Tom Hardy

  Tattoo, Nice, Class

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