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My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

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

I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?

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

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

I'm painfully middle class.

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

The key to a vibrant middle class is an abundance of jobs that pay enough so that workers can provide for themselves and their families, enjoy leisure time, save for retirement and pay for their children's education so they can grow up and earn even more than their parents.