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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.

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

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

I have a class prejudice - against the upper class, which is foolish.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.

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.