#middle class

The 1970s - I was ten in 1975 - were a bad decade in all sorts of ways but the middle class had comfortable assumptions about the prospects for its children. The middle class was smaller then; it was a much less competitive Britain, less meritocratic. ↗

— David Miliband

#assumptions #bad #britain #children #class

I have never run for political office, but every night I am reaching out to millions of Americans on the radio and I am deeply concerned that the middle class of the United States is being sold out to multi-national corporations with a globalist agenda. ↗

— George Noory

#am #being #class #concerned #corporations

Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America. ↗

— George Noory

#being #border #china #class #country

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class. ↗

— John J. Sweeney

#breadth #child #class #climb #economy

Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#another #class #cuts #economic #economic policies

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#class #democrats #middle #middle class #real

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#class #divide #lower #lower class #middle

You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#bank #bank account #class #cut #know

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#believe #borrowed #build #class #dollars

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

#class #depends #digging #economy #george