Middle-class Quotes

• We have a middle class that lives on a razor blade. So sometimes when you say poverty, you neglect a large portion of the population.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Poverty
  • Population
  • Blade

• The middle class, in any society, plays the role of graphite rods in nuclear reactors: they slow down the reaction and, if it weren't for them, the reactor would explode. A society without a middle class is a society primed for explosion.

  

  Ahmed Toufiq
  • Society
  • Middle-class
  • Explosion

• I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

  

  Ayobami Adebayo
  • Expected
  • Degree
  • Middle-class

• We will not be able to go without a tax cut for the middle class.

  

  Edmund Stoiber
  • Tax
  • Middle-class

• Most power just looks like an easier-than-average life. It’s so built-in that people mostly don’t realize how powerful they are. Like, the average middle-class person in the US is one of the 3 percent richest people in the world. Thus, they’re probably one of the most powerful people in the world. But, to them, they feel completely average.

  

  Hank Green
  • Life
  • Power
  • U.S.

• We're now in one of those periods when the reality of intense pressure on the middle class diverges from long-held assumptions of how the American bargain should work.

  

  James Fallows
  • Reality
  • Period
  • Pressure

• As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world of escape--fantasy; something to inject wonder and adventure into the mundane, regulated life of a middle-class boy leading a middle-class life.

  

  Barry B. Longyear
  • Wonder
  • Animals
  • Dragons

• I believe the middle class game is dead.

  

  Cliff Bleszinski
  • Believe
  • Game
  • Dead

• Most people are middle class. Most people do wish their lives were better than they are. And I think by making my main characters ordinary, average guys, it helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Reality
  • Problems
  • Characters

• 'Tanu Weds Manu''s brilliance lies in the fact that it makes the middle class want to be aspirational.

  

  R. Madhavan
  • Lies
  • Middle-class
  • Aspirational

• In progressive, middle-class circles these days, there's the overwhelming sense that procuring and cooking freshest, healthiest, most sustainably sourced food should be a top priority for any thinking person.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Food
  • Middle-class
  • Thinking Person

• Americans want Washington to put aside political differences, find common ground, and start producing real economic solutions for the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Differences
  • Americans
  • Middle-class

• I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Trauma
  • Middle-class
  • Imagey parents

• The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

  

  Alissa Quart
  • Education
  • Defined
  • Aspirations

• My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Parents
  • Jobs
  • Educated

• The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Problems
  • Personal
  • Cultural

• I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • I Believe
  • Families
  • Middle-class

• I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

  

  Andrew Haigh
  • Cinema
  • Extremes
  • Middle-class

• We Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think "we're all in this together" is a better philosophy than "you're on your own."

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Future
  • Focus
  • Opportunities

• I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Congress
  • Decided
  • Middle-class

• I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Product
  • Middle-class

• There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Political
  • Supporting
  • Middle-class

• That everybody can do something, without regard to how old or young they are, rich or poor or middle class they are, how busy or not busy they are and what level skills they have. Everyone can do something. And everybody should do something. ... And if you do it, you'll be happier.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Middle-class

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