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I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Success
Democracy
You
Class
People
Police
Stronger
Own
Group
Think
Broad
Worry
Security
About
Democratic
Democratic Process
Coming
Middle
Ends
Middle Class
Process
Really
Exploiting
Less
Presence
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson
You
Class
Hurts
Whatever
Rich
Corporate
Rule
Alike
Jobs
Investing
Put
Smaller
Economy
Inevitably
Hiring
Get
Fewer
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Poor
Taxation
Taxing
Means
Less
Activity
Cardinal
Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.
Al Franken
Work
Hard Work
You
Class
Enjoy
Secure
Promise
Able
Lifetime
Part
Retire
Labor
Established
Middle
Middle Class
After
Fruits
Hard
Medicare
Rather than address the priorities of the middle class, the Ryan budget is an attack on American seniors, students, workers, and families - all for the sake of protecting loopholes for the wealthy and corporations that ship jobs overseas.
Albio Sires
Class
Seniors
Address
Corporations
Jobs
Wealthy
Rather
Attack
Students
Budget
Protecting
Loopholes
Priorities
Sake
Overseas
Ship
Families
Than
American
Middle
Middle Class
Workers
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
Alice McDermott
Work
Day
You
Class
Every Day
Treat
Job
Every
Think
Complain
Background
Had
Nobody
Learned
Protestant
Real
Still
Go
Were
Real Job
Up
Irish
Get
Same
Quite
Middle
Middle Class
Which
Might
Work Ethic
Ethic
Really
Show
Special
Who
Early
'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes.
Alissa Quart
Class
Old
Shoes
Public Schools
Stride
Brown
Silver
Having
Purple
High-Quality
Rite
Mary
New
Schools
Occasionally
Private
Were
Pinching
Private Schools
Sending
Middle
Children
Middle Class
Public
Little
Mean
Them
Toes
Meant
Used
Even
Flowers
Two
The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.
Alissa Quart
Education
Class
Money
Group
Defined
More
Also
Household
Course
Than
Just
Middle
Middle Class
Aspirations
Income
Credentials
Assets
The people who talk about the middle class aren't upholding their interests in the legislature.
Alissa Quart
Class
People
About
Talk
Upholding
Legislature
Middle
Middle Class
Interests
Who
Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.
Ana Kasparian
Saying
Class
Negative
Become
Impact
Something
Examples
Inequality
West
Common
Middle
Middle Class
Kanye
Kanye West
Media
Income
Income Inequality
I think Millennials are more progressive, more socially progressive, much more concerned about economic issues that impact the poor and middle class, and so that basically shows me that the Democratic party will have a bright future.
Ana Kasparian
Future
Me
Class
Will
Party
Think
Progressive
Impact
About
More
Economic
Democratic
Concerned
Democratic Party
Issues
Middle
Middle Class
Poor
Much
Shows
Bright
Bright Future
Millennials
Socially
Basically
Crippling student loan debt doesn't just affect those who took out loans to get an education. It harms all of us because we can't have a healthy economy without a strong middle class to stimulate it.
Ana Kasparian
Education
Class
Strong
Loan
Healthy
Took
Those
Crippling
Out
Student
Economy
Because
Without
Healthy Economy
Stimulate
Affect
Debt
Get
Just
Middle
Middle Class
Us
Who
Loans
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.
Andrew Cuomo
You
Class
Money
Sometimes
Will
Rich
Spend
Know
Account
Bank
Bank Account
Middle
Middle Class
Taxes
Cut
When you grow up middle class, you just always feel like you've got to be working, or you won't be able to pay the bills.
Anna Kendrick
You
Class
Pay
Able
Feel
Like
Always
Got
Up
Just
Middle
Middle Class
Working
Bills
Grow
Grow Up
The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
Anthony Shadid
War
Class
Bitterness
Country
Understanding
Out
Invaded
Wiped
Had
Support
Without
How
Years
Iran
Iraq
Decade
American
Done
Middle
Eight
Middle Class
Sanctions
Created
Meant
Traumatized
Appreciate
All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.
Anthony Weiner
Class
Will
Virtually
Adds
Those
Jobs
Would
Would-Be
Exactly
About
Economic
Economic Growth
New
Insurance
None
How
How Much
New Jobs
Unemployment
Middle
Tax
Middle Class
Wanted
Estate
Estate Tax
Tax Cut
Tax Cuts
Predictions
Cut
Cuts
Much
Created
Billionaires
Zero
Growth
Things
Extension
Millionaires
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
Anthony Weiner
Work
Time
Class
Change
Financial
Matters
Focused
Member
Silly
He
GOP
Supreme
Supreme Court
Himself
Court
Limit
Prank
Subject
Debt
Debt Limit
Middle
Refusing
Want
Middle Class
Stagnant
Interest
Games
Many
Incomes
Playing
Playing Games
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.
Anupam Kher
Good
Family
Class
Sports
Father
Bad
Class Family
Born
Studies
Clerk
Also
Forest
Very
Department
Middle
Middle Class
Poor
Lower
I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.
Ayobami Adebayo
You
Class
Man
Woman
Degree
Master
Young
Think
Between
Come
Supposed
Particularly
How
How Much
Go
Person
Expected
Get
Maybe
Middle
Middle Class
Whether
Young Person
Much
Two
University
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Class
Poverty
Think
Chronic
About
Both
Long-Term
Category
Likes
Mobility
America
Same
Middle
Middle Class
Downward
Things
Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
Barbara Mikulski
Class
Quality
Women
Opportunity
Care
Congress
Down
Top
Out
Jobs
More
Leading
Economy
Make
Because
Understand
Child
America
Affordable
Child Care
Middle
Middle Class
Create
Working
Means
Grows
Strengthen
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
Benjamin Clementine
Family
Class
People
Money
Father
Rich
Run
Class Family
Around
Middle
Middle Class
Rich People
Really
From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.
Bev Perdue
Education
Class
Strong
Building
Military
Broadband
Carolina
Obama
Delivering
He
Roads
Supporting
North
America
North Carolina
Middle
Middle Class
Barack
Barack Obama
Bridges
Growing
Foundation
Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs.
Bill Halter
Health
Broken
Class
Strings
Out
Costs
Attached
Instead
Arkansas
Bailing
Protecting
Insurance
Leaving
Wall
Wall Street
Middle
Patients
Middle Class
While
Taxpayers
Bill
Lowering
Company
Washington
Street
Profits
I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.
Billy Corgan
Family
Class
Background
Immigrants
Were
Middle
Middle Class
Lower
I would say I came from upper middle class family.
Bob Newhart
Family
Class
Say
Would
Class Family
Came
Upper
Middle
Middle Class
My position has been consistent that middle class families should not pay more taxes. That hasn't changed.
Brad Schneider
Class
Pay
Changed
Consistent
Has-Been
More
Been
Families
Middle
Middle Class
Taxes
Should
Position
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