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“If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.”

Ifs Want Problem America Class Middle Spending Consumers Middle Class

Author:Wilbur Ross

“I want people to make a lot more than $9. $9 is not enough. The problem is that if you can't do that by mandating it in the minimum wage laws. Minimum wage laws never worked in terms of helping the middle class attain more prosperity.”

People Want Enough Problem Law Political Term Class Middle Prosperity Middle Class Minimum Minimum Wage

Author:Marco Rubio

“If she'd spaced her children out and had eleven babies in eleven years, she would have been no better than her own mother and sisters: irresponsible, a welfare cheat, another bit of Sawdust Lane white trash. But as luck would have it, she'd had them all at once, and now she was, overnight, middle-class. And respectable.”

Ifs Years Children Has Beens Mother Bits White Class Middle Baby Luck Welfare Middle Class Cheat Trash Respectable Eleven Irresponsible Lanes White Trash Sawdust

Book:The Mammoth Cheese

Source: The Mammoth Cheese

“Manufacturing and other unskilled professions that were union jobs, that allowed people to live a middle-class life, are disappearing both because unions are disappearing and because of the global nature of the economy.”

People Jobs Class Economy Middle Unions Disappear Profession Middle Class Manufacturing Middle Class Life

Author:Andy Stern

“Here’s a current example of the challenge we face. At the height of its power, the photography company Kodak employed more than 140,000 people and was worth $28 billion. They even invented the first digital camera. But today Kodak is bankrupt, and the new face of digital photography has become Instagram. When Instagram was sold to Facebook for a billion dollars in 2012, it employed only thirteen people. Where did all those jobs disappear to? And what happened to the wealth that all those middle-class jobs created?”

“A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.”

Needs Bigs Government Poor Powerful Class Middle Superiors Middle Class Privileged Reflecting Big Government Smaller Government

Author:Robert Reich

“America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.”

Real America Leader Class Middle Capitalism Remains Vulnerable Middle Class Business Leaders

Author:Robert Reich

“We already have an annual wealth tax on homes, the major asset of the middle class. It's called the property tax. Why not a small annual tax on the value of stocks and bonds, the major assets of the wealthy?”

Home Values Wealth Class Middle Taxes Majors Property Middle Class Wealthy Why Not Assets Annuals Property Taxes

Author:Robert Reich

“If you think that someone is out to steal everything you have, you're either paranoid or a member of the middle class.”

Ifs Thinking Class Society Middle Members Stealing Middle Class Paranoid

Author:Robert Breault

“Your biggest challenge is a middle class mindset; PFS goes against the traditional, middle class way of thinking.”

Thinking Way Challenges Class Middle Mindset Traditional Middle Class Way Of Thinking

Author:Shane Perry

“I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.”

Thinking Knows World May Stories Bigs Deals Class Middle Internet Bigger Chinese Changing The World Middle Class Revealing

Author:James Packer

“Let's be honest: Kerry has no idea what it is to be even a middle-class white in this country.”

Ideas Country Politics White Class Middle Honest Being Honest No Idea Middle Class

Author:Glenn Reynolds

“The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.”

Political Politics Community Class Middle Citizens Middle Class Best Political

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle

“You have to live among rich liberals to understand what they're saying. You'll never believe what they mean by 'middle class.' They mean themselves.”

Believe Mean Class Rich Middle Middle Class

Author:Joel Stein

“Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Country Problem Class Middle Smart Bills Clinton Clubs Glad Labels Middle Class Southerner Country Clubs Yuppies

Author:John Shelton Reed

“I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.”

Two School Mother Father Born Class Middle College Brother Towns Middle Class Physicians Small Town Elders Qualified Housewife Bangladesh Liberal Education Younger Sister Muslim Family

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“Tai chi is the one exercise that can universally help solve our growing health crisis. It has stood the test of thousands of years. We have a generation of baby boomers with increasing health problems; old people who are sick, in pain, fearful, and cranky; a middle class that is increasingly incapable of affording most of the drugs that are prescribed for their ailments; children that are flaccid, diabetic and asthmatic. People of all ages are addicted to drugs, alcohol, sugar, cigarettes, and caffeine. Stress follows almost everyone like a shadow.”

People Children Helping Problem Age Pain Baby Exercise Drug Shadow Sick Stress Crisis Alcohol Middle Class Fearful Cigarette Old People Caffeine Cranky Baby Boomer

Author:Bruce Frantzis

“Bohemia and all its works are vanished out of America; or, more exactly, bohemia has migrated to the middle class, and is alive and well in condo and suburb.”

Wells America Class Alive Middle Middle Class Suburbs Bohemia

Book:The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

Source: The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel

“The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.”

Ifs States Political Community Perfect Class Society Middle Middle Class Respectable

Book:A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle

Source: A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle

“When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.”

Ends States Government Poor Numbers Class Trouble Middle Arise Middle Class Exceed

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“For though we are perpetually bragging of it as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper.”

Age Poor Class Middle Safety Middle Class Middle Ages Fringe Bragging Upper Class

Author:Charles Dickens

“I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.”

People Thinking Writing Important Seems Form Imagination Class Novel Middle Highest Important Things Middle Class

Author:Gore Vidal

“To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.”

Way Class Middle Creatures Connections Feminist Mysterious Abstract Middle Class Solidarity Working Class

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.”

Feels Class Middle Fashion Dangerous Habit Circumstances Speech Tragedy Pursuit Middle Class Clothings Emulate Adopting Pitiful

Book:Writing in restaurants

Source: Writing in restaurants

“Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.”

Humans May Behinds Class Middle Terrible One Day Members Capacity Middle Class Respectable Orderly Human Capacity

Book:Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor

“A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That is, one could shade down from an actual ruling or governing class to a class hopelessly out of relation to government, thinking of government as beyond its control, of itself as wholly controlled by government. Somewhere in between and In gradations is the group that has the sense that gov't exists for it, and shapes its consciousness accordingly.”

Thinking Government Consciousness Situation Class Groups Middle Theory Shapes Relation Financial Determined Middle Class Controlled Shade Ruling Governing

Author:Lionel Trilling

“We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were 'teen-agers' - a term, coined in 1941, that was in common usage a decade later - a new, recognizable franchise. We had money, mobility, and problems all our own.”

Problem Kids Term White Common Class Middle Civilization Western Decades Income Middle Class Western Civilization Usage Mobility

Author:John Lahr

“Comfort came in with the middle classes.”

Class Middle Comfort Middle Class

Author:Clive Bell

“I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.”

People Class Middle Involved Mets India Foolish Vain Revolutionary Middle Class Grandeur Guerrillas

Author:V. S. Naipaul

“I didn't actually know what the protesters in the West really wanted. It was fantastic here, so much freedom, and that was what they were calling musty, middle-class, and fascistic, a bleak period. Bleak was what the GDR was, and it alone had adopted, almost unchanged, Nazi Germany's methods of intimidation and ideas about propaganda and the use of force.”

Knows Art Ideas Use Wanted Force Class Middle Painting Periods Calling Method West Fantastic Propaganda Germany Middle Class Nazi Adopted Intimidation Bleak Nazi Germany Use Of Force

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.”

Social Effort Class Middle Revolution Middle Class Social Change Social Revolution Disenfranchised

Author:Faye Wattleton

“Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.”

Way Party Class Clear Middle Movement Socialism Middle Class Nationalism Throwing Fascism Marxism Crystals Cowardly Synthesis Goering Cauldrons

Author:Hermann Goring

“It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere.”

Writing Whole Lying Values Turns Social Existence Compassion Moral Vision Class Middle Pity Middle Class Feminine Honour Sympathy Spheres Centre Humanitarianism Confined Upper Class

Author:Terry Eagleton

“In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.”

People Ifs Has Beens Real Black Class Generations Middle Entertainment Real Life Middle Class Black People

Author:Stephen L. Carter

“The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.”

White Class Middle Population Wide Middle Class

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.”

Two Black Poor Class Middle Population Middle Class

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”

Artist Family Class Middle Son Comfort Average Middle Class Gifted Speculation Peasants Poorest Tramps Roadside

Book:The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

Source: The Complete Works of J. M. Synge

“I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.”

World Kids Grows Wealth Class Growing Up Middle Privilege Middle Class Relative

Author:Matt Damon

“I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.”

People Class Fans Middle Circles Middle Class

Book:Conversations with James Ellroy

Source: Conversations with James Ellroy

“I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.”

Stories Family Class Middle Degrees Middle Class Middle Class Family Devon

Author:Chris Martin

“I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.”

Ifs Thinking Class Successful Middle Being Successful Middle Class Embarrassed

Author:Chris Martin

“Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!”

Way Class Middle Who I Am Middle Class Honey Oklahoma

Author:Annette Bening

“My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.”

Kind Mother Father Parent Born Class Middle Stage My Family Blue Middle Class Italian Detroit Collars Diana Blue Collar Italian American

Author:Lorraine Bracco

“My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single family home in a middle-class suburb. That doesn't mean I didn't experience hardship, but to me it's not about that, it's about the future and where we are trying to take it.”

Trying Mean Home Grows Class Growing Up Middle Grew Projects Grew Up Hip Hop Backgrounds Hips Middle Class Hops Hardship Typical Suburbs Family Home

Author:Kid Cudi

“I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.”

“In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.”

Ifs Long Hard States Born Class Rich Middle Hard Work Britain Middle Class Aspire Working Class

Author:Nigel Cole

“Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.”

Thinking Needs Play Lasts Class Happened Streets Middle Wall Burden Decades Middle Class Bail Main Street

Author:Stephanie Cutter

“A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.”

World Made Country America Strong Class Middle Educated Middle Class

Author:Lincoln Chafee

“When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.”

Class Middle Destroyed Germany Middle Class Nazi Inflation Runaway

Author:Nick Clooney

“I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.”

Thinking Children Parent Class Growing Up Growing Middle Youth My Friends Middle Class Neighborhood Texas Unusual Dallas Only Child Dummy Upper Middle Class Dallas Texas

Book:All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

Source: All By My Selves: Walter, Peanut, Achmed, and Me

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