I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.
The controversies between the proletariat and the middle class had to be smoothed out and bridged over by each getting to know and understand the other.
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.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
We weren't poor growing up on Long Island, but it wasn't lavish - just a regular middle-class house.
You know, you cut taxes for the rich sometimes and it sits in a bank account. You cut taxes for the middle class, they will spend the money.
To fulfill the promise of economic opportunity, we must remain true to the principle that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of a free society and indispensable to a strong middle class.
In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
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.
Now students all seem to be converging on the same self, the successful upper-middle-class professional, impersonating the adult they've already decided they want to become.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
Young people deserve stable employment opportunities and not mountains of debt. When young people can access the middle class, America is strengthened.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts.
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
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.
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She acted on the stage with Diana Dors. Her parents were French.
