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There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

Big government doesn't help the middle class, it buries it.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

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

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

Right now, America's middle class is struggling to meet their basic needs.

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

The United States is a country where practically everybody considers himself middle class.