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We need for America to get back to basics and focus on the middle class's quality of life. Healthcare reform is vital to restoring that standard of living.

Opponents of health care reform would take away consumer protections - siding with the insurance industry instead of the middle class. We can't afford that.

Part of the middle class promise is that, after a lifetime of hard work, you'll be able to retire and enjoy the fruits of that labor. Medicare was established to secure that promise.

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

Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political class seems completely unable to respond to it.

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.

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

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

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

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