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My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Traditional values are big in my life.

Family and moral values are so central to everything that I am.

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.

I was not from a middle-class family at all. I did not have middle-class possessions and what have you. But I had middle-class parents who gave me what was needed to survive in society.

My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.