#middle class

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#american #american dream #barack #barack obama #class

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#american dream #believe #class #dream #families

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#blasphemy #class #dependent #earth #every

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#class #days #even #few #future

We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bombs #brink #class #guys #instead

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime. ↗

— Andy Stern

#been #best #class #cost #creating

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#class #clear #first #freedom #freedom of religion

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. ↗

— Dave Van Ronk

#asked #class #count #family #father

My parents were determined to move into the middle class. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#determined #into #middle #middle class #move

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#class #cuts #democrats #keeping #levels