Middle Class Family Quotes:

Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

- Geoffrey Canada

topic: Class, Birth, Middle, Middle Class Family

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

- Barack Obama

topic: Inspirational, Family, Retirement, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

- Nita Ambani

topic: Thinking, Class, Middle, Middle Class Family

I believe that to do anything in this world one needs a love for risk and adventure, and above all, to be able to do without what middle-class families call "future."

- Joan Miro

topic: Courage, Believe, Adventure, Middle Class Family

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

- SonReal

topic: Growing Up, Class, Guy, Middle Class Family

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

- Maureen Forrester

topic: Class, Born, Middle, Middle Class Family, Montreal

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

- Benjamin Clementine

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Running, Father, Class, Middle Class Family

My mission is to raise incomes for hard working middle class families. If you work hard and do your part you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

- Bernie Sanders

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Hard Work, Class, Able, Middle Class Family

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

- Larry Gagosian

source: Interview with Peter M. Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

topic: Class, Grew Up, Middle, Middle Class Family

I think 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.

- Anne Hathaway

source: "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

topic: Strong, Thinking, Class, Middle Class Family, Strong Values

One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families of financial reserves & seems to lend support to campaigns for socialized medicine, socialized housing, socialized food, socialized every thing. The personal income tax has made the individual vastly more dependent on the State & more avid for state hand-outs. It has shifted the balance in America from an individual-centered to a State-centered economic & social system.

- William Henry Chamberlin

topic: Hands, Class, Medicine, Socialized Medicine, Middle Class Family

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.

- Chris Martin

topic: Family, Class, Degrees, Devon, Middle Class Family

I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Growing Up, School, Illinois, Middle Class Family, Jewish Community

I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

- Tom Hardy

topic: Tattoo, Nice, Class, Middle Class Family

What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.

- Barack Obama

topic: Stars, Opportunity, Order, Middle Class Family, North Star

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

- Theodore C. Sorensen

topic: Father, Class, Nebraska, Middle Class Family

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.

- Steny Hoyer

source: Steny Hoyer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.

topic: Work, Class, America, Middle Class Family

The Bill Engvall Show' is a comedy about a middle-class family in the Midwest. It's a great family show to watch if you want to laugh and unwind.

- Nancy Travis

topic: Class, Laughing, Watches, Middle Class Family, Unwind

For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

- Stephanie Coontz

topic: Girl, Daughter, Mother, Middle Class Family, Black Girl

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

- Lavrenti Lopes

topic: Class, Everyday, India, Middle Class Family

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

- Barack Obama

topic: Class, Mind, Special, Middle Class Family

I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America in the middle of the last century.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Hillary Clinton's economic policy speech, May 29, 2007.

topic: Class, America, Lasts, Middle Class Family

My greatest inspiration has to be a Thai lady called Kru Nam, 40, she is from an upper middle class family and degree educated who has chosen to dedicated her life to rescuing children. I met her just after she rescued 27 children, since then she has continued to rescue more children without money, influence and making connections.

- David Batstone

source: Source: forums.juniper.net

topic: Children, Inspiration, Class, Middle Class Family, Thai

The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

- Manmohan Singh

source: "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

topic: Daughter, Brother, Powerful, Son-in-law, Middle Class Family

Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.

- Shonda Rhimes

topic: Mean, Rights, Class, Middle Class Family, Uterus

My plan is based on growing the economy, giving middle-class families many more opportunities. I want us to have the biggest jobs program since World War II, jobs in infrastructure and advanced manufacturing.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

topic: Jobs, War, Opportunity, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.

- Mike Royer

topic: Summer, Art, Real, Middle Class Family

When President-elect [Donald] Trump wants to take on these issue, when his goal is to increase the economic security of middle class families, then count me in.

- Rudy Giuliani

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Issues, Class, Goal, Middle Class Family, Economic Security

Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.independent.co.uk

topic: Class, Ends, Middle, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

I came from an educated, upper middle-class family. My mother was a Persian and history teacher at a large high school for girls. Many of the women in my extended family and in our circle of friends were professionals. In those days, women were a vital part of the economy in Kabul. They worked as lawyers, physicians, college professors, etc., which makes the tragedy of how they were treated by the Taliban that much more painful.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: Interview with Razeshta Sethna, newslinemagazine.com. November, 2003.

topic: Girl, Mother, Teacher, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

Independent experts have looked at what I've proposed and looked at what Donald's [Trump] proposed, and basically they've said this, that if his tax plan, which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle-class families compared to the wealthy, were to go into effect, we would lose 3.5 million jobs and maybe have another recession.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Jobs, Independent, Blow, Middle Class Family

For the workers and their families, being able to bring home a living wage helps their families and, by extension, helps our economy. Seventy percent of our economy is consumer-based. We know that when lower- and middle-class families have money and disposable income, they spend it. That puts money back into the economy. It's a win-win for everybody: Not just for the individual, not just production at a specific company (like Nissan), but for the greater good.

- Nina Turner

topic: Home, Winning, Class, Middle Class Family, Living Wage

So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.

- Barack Obama

topic: Jobs, Believe, Years, Middle Class Family

The economic recession in America wasn't caused by bad luck; it was caused by bad Republican policies. But the Republican candidates are doubling down on the same flawed policies that led to the loss of 3.6 million jobs in the final months of 2008 and gravely affected middle class families across America.

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

topic: Jobs, Loss, Class, Middle Class Family, Economic Recession

The economy has definitely been improving, and things like the stock market are doing better, but the economy has to be good for working-class and middle-class families who work every day, send their kids to a school like is in front of my house, and they have to be able to enjoy their lives. That's why you don't pass a trade agreement that ships even more jobs overseas.

- Russ Feingold

topic: Jobs, School, Kids, Middle Class Family

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

- Larry McMurtry

source: Larry McMurtry (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”

topic: Children, Sibling, Night, Middle Class Family, Dinner Table

Wes Clark put forward a middle class tax plan, but it only helps a quarter of middle class families, none without minor children at home, .. And mine helps 98 percent of the middle class.

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Children, Home, Class, Middle Class Family

In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.

- Mitt Romney

topic: Country, Class, Income, Middle Class, Middle Class Family

I'm a girl from South Carolina. I was raised in a middle class family and decided to major in broadcast journalism and now I'm at the national level and that doesn't happen to most people and I realize that. I know that I'm very fortunate but this great country allowed that to work in my favor.

- Ainsley Earhardt

source: Source: www.elle.com

topic: Girl, Country, Class, Middle Class Family, Great Country

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

- Barack Obama

topic: Responsible Business, Class, Environmental, Middle Class Family, Oversight

I may, and I think I represent a tradition that means a lot to me, which has really always been about fighting for others, for middle-class families, for working class - for working people, you know, and that's a tradition and a commitment that I take very seriously.

- Caroline Kennedy

topic: Mean, Commitment, Fighting, Middle Class Family

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

- Anupam Kher

topic: Sports, Father, Class, Middle Class Family, Poor Family

I am fighting for those middle-class families who want us to deal with our debt and deficit, but they also want the investments that are critical to our country moving forward.

- Patty Murray

source: "Murray: I will chair Senate Budget" by Scott Wong, www.politico.com. November 15, 2012.

topic: Country, Moving, Fighting, Middle Class Family

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

- Muhammad Yunus

source: "Talk Asia" Interview, www.cnn.com. November 20, 2007.

topic: Mother, Brother, Children, Middle Class Family, Two Sisters

If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

- J. M. Ledgard

source: "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

topic: Class, Fiction, World, Middle Class Family, Grappling

We want to repeal the ObamaCare tax. We want to save middle class families from European health care. And that's what we're going to do as a party and that's what Mitt Romney will do on day one.

- Reince Priebus

source: "Interview with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 3, 2012.

topic: Party, Class, Obamacare, Middle Class Family

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

- Bev Perdue

source: "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

topic: Country, Moving, America, Middle Class Family, Carolina

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

- Suresh Raina

topic: Class, Actors, Able, Middle Class Family

I never have issues in handling the fame. I was in a boarding school, as I am from a middle-class family. We didn't have a lot of money, so we all learned to respect money and understood its real value.

- Suresh Raina

topic: Real, School, Class, Middle Class Family, Real Value

This kind of inequality - a level that we haven’t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That’s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It’s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run.

- Barack Obama

source: Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

topic: Running, Country, Hurt, Middle Class Family