#middle class

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process. ↗

— Susan George

#always #between #class #erosion #gap

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#america #class #create #economic #ensure

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents. ↗

— Jude Law

#british #childhood #class #did #had

If a budget is designed to show our values, it's clear where the majority stands: against opportunity, against education, and against America's hard-working, tax-paying middle class. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#america #budget #class #clear #designed

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle

Moderates shouldn't be nervous about Newt because he has a vision, he's laid it forward. He's fundamentally leading us in the way that middle class Americans want to go. ↗

— Pete du Pont

#because #class #forward #fundamentally #go

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#classes #future #middle #middle class #nation

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. ↗

— Kid Rock

#class #come #dad #got #grew

We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#absorb #address #afford #class #continue

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#democratic #democratic party #eye #eye level #i