“Over the years, America’s middle class had been deliberately hollowed out.”— Elizabeth Warren, masslive.com
“The test is not “Will there be new jobs we haven’t predicted yet that appear?” Of course there will be. The real test is “Will there be millions of new jobs for middle-aged people with low skills and levels of education near the places they currently reside?””— Andrew Yang,
“Medical problems, job losses, and family breakups had laid these families low. Most had hung on and tried to repay long past any reasonable chance of doing so. As I saw it, the families in bankruptcy were mostly good people caught in a bad situation.”— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com
“America’s middle class was under attack. The nation’s broad prosperity had been forged by people like my parents—people who knew hardship and conflict and who kept on fighting, determined to pass on something better to their children. But the strength of the middle class was not unlimited. I felt as…”— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com
“America’s middle class is under attack. Worse, it’s not under attack by some unstoppable force of nature. It’s in trouble because the game is deliberately rigged.”— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com
“The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle class. But it was this fight that showed me how badly the playing field was tilted and taught me that the squeeze wasn’t accidental.”— Elizabeth Warren, amazon.com
“Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these 'normal' human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.”— Matt Haig, amazon.com
“People yearn for a 'politics of the center' —not 'the center' so widely discussed by politicians and pundits in Washington but rather a politics that speaks to the center of people's lives: affordable child care, good education for children, health security, living-wage jobs that will support famili…”— Paul Wellstone, amazon.com
“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.”— Kid Cudi, theguardian.com
“The middle class is dying, you’ll be renting forever.”— John Riggi, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end—people like myself—should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.”— Warren Buffett, abcnews.go.com