It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.
Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.
I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.
The president of the branch in Atlanta was a pastor of a church, the Reverend Sam Williams, a wonderful guy. He was middle-class and fairly militant for the time and place.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
I turned a lot of people in white America - and not just white America, but middle-class America - into hip-hoppers, you know?
The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and th...
I favor the extension of the middle-class tax cuts because in a recession they're stimulative and they help with demand.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.
I want to look at the whole package, but I definitely want to protect the middle-class taxpayer, first and foremost.
Democrats believe, plausibly, that middle-class entitlements are instantly addictive and, because there is no known detoxification, that class, when facing future choices between trimming entitlements or increasing taxes, will choose the latter.
Middle-class Pakistani cultural life is what I've seen, what I know - they're not all screaming faceless mullahs. It's disturbing that in American films, the character on the other side is not even named.
(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and cognitive traits.
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
You know, without China there is no Wal-Mart and without Wal-Mart there is no middle class and lower class prosperity in the United States.
The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
