I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
I don't know any nation on Earth that succeeded in creating a strong middle class with rising wages based on building a stronger and bigger government.
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.
Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.
I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
And middle-class women, although taught to value established forms, are in the same position as the working class: neither can use established forms to express what the forms were never intended to express (and may very well operate to conceal).
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting bloc...
The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.
The auto industry is standing today. The middle class is standing today. Ohio is standing today. America is standing strong today.
Middle class families should not be forced to scrape by with less while oil companies get away with more.
We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.
I've seen it with my own eyes: When government takes money from the poor and the middle class, everyone suffers.
There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.
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.
We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
