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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.
In America, the middle class, the working class, have accepted for too long now, that they should accept less.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.
A fundamental way to build and expand our middle class and economy is to create a modern and well-paid workforce.
I will not stand for any tax increase for middle class or working Americans. There is no way I will support that.
Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.
I came from a very middle class Maharashtrian family. It was a big step to get into movies. My family was shocked.
Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.
I don't think I could write a good play if I was setting out to write about the death of the American middle class.
Aided by the Great Society and the New Deal, the middle class grew, everywhere from Winnetka to Orlando to Humboldt.
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
My composition often goes toward the black middle class or the black super-wealthy or strong historical black figures.
I had quite a turbulent upbringing. It was middle class, and everything was quite comfortable, but everyone was mental.
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.
When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.
My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
We should not chip away at the protections that have built the largest economy and the largest middle class in the world.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
Since I still think of myself as a middle class guy, people get to see that side of me in films like 'Middle Class Abbayi.'
I grew up a middle class, colonized child of teachers and librarians and people, women especially, who treasured education.
Romney economics would spell disaster for America's middle class. In this economy there are shipbuilders and ship wreckers.
I am human and get insecure because I am a middle class man and I need to feed my family and acting is the only job I know.
I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.
With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.
My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.
I wouldn't say we were middle class. There was not lots of money for nice things. But we never wanted for the things we needed.
Progressive policies implemented since the early 1900s launched America into the modern age and created a vibrant middle class.
To advocate both for more immigration and for faster wage growth for the working and middle class is to work at cross-purposes.
I often ask people in the audience what their favourite cheese is. Anything less than Gruyere and they're just not middle class!
The job creators are members of America's vast middle class and the poor, whose purchases cause businesses to expand and invest.
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
If, if more stimulus means more tax cuts to small businesses, if, if more stimulus means middle class tax cuts, then I'm for it.
Israel's middle class is paying for those below it, and that's fine, but also for those who are above it, and that's very wrong.
I'm not for the sort of trade deals that hollow out our standards while they hollow out our middle class and middle class wages.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.
I want to make sure that ours is a party that is focusing on both middle class issues and not becoming a party of our two coasts.
No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.