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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.

A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

One of the things I get amused by is when my opponent talks about the middle class.

The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pressure and that government has a role to play beyond cutting taxes.

The middle class creates us rich people, not the other way around.