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  • 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.

    Jobs   Believe   Years  
  • 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."

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

    Class   Everyday   India  
  • 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.

    Strong   Thinking   Class  
    "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.
  • 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.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
  • 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.

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

  • 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.

    Class   Fiction   World  
    "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.
  • I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

    Class   Born   Middle  
  • I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

    Father   Class   Nebraska  
  • Donald Trump would end up raising taxes on middle-class families.

    Class   Ends   Middle  
    Source: www.independent.co.uk
  • I'm from a nice, suburban, middle-class family, but my tattoos remind me where I've been.

    Tattoo   Nice   Class  
  • 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.

    Country   Moving   Class  
    "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.
  • Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

    Children   Years   Class  
  • 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.

    Source: www.politico.com
  • 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.

    Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.
  • 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 (1999). “Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond”
  • 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.

    America   Avid   Hands  
  • 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.

    Interview with Nicholas Confessore, David M. Halbfinger, www.nytimes.com. December 27, 2008.
  • My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

    Thinking   Class   Middle  
  • 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.

    Girl   Country   Class  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • 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.

    Real   School   Class  
  • Barack Obama knows that to create an economy built to last, we need to focus on middle-class families. Families who stay up on Sunday nights pacing the floor, like my dad did, while their children, tucked in bed, dream big dreams. Families who aren't sure what Monday morning will bring, but who believe our nation's best days are still ahead.

    Dream   Monday   Morning  
    Chuck Schumer's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.
  • 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.

    Running   Father   Class  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Girl   Daughter   Mother  
  • Middle-class families know education begins at birth.

    Class   Birth   Middle  
  • 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.

    Children   Home   Class  
    "Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.
  • 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.

    Jobs   School   Kids  
  • You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

    Dirty   Mean   Boys  
  • 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.

    Class   Mind   Special  
    "Obama Tells Republicans to 'Sit in Back'". Speech, www.foxnews.com. October 25, 2010.
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