#middle class

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#being #causes #class #feels #luxury

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#class #earners #economic #history #led

In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#big #bossy #class #fact #government

I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with. And there's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#class #class family #decadent #excess #family

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#austrian #born #class #disastrous #end

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers. ↗

— Scott Walker

#endless #expansion #government #looking #middle

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. ↗

— Elizabeth Warren

#attack #class #could #daddy #edges

You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#class #know #lower #lower class #middle

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#bill #class #congress #deductions #deficit

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights