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I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

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

A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.

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's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.

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

One of the strengths of our nation has always been a strong middle class who could afford their own homes and send their children to school.