James Carville Quotes

In the States everyone aspires to be middle class. It's so engrained into the American psyche: As long as you work hard you're going to be rich some day. The history of Britain is that if you're born working class, you're going to stay there, although that is changing.

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.

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.

I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.

For a number of years, I've wondered if people like us are the forgotten. We're not the poor, and we're not the rich. We're not the very young or the aged. We're the average American family.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

I'm not from the working class. I'm from the criminal class.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

We were working class, and you don't lose that. Later on, I bolted on media middle class... and now people like me are in the House of Lords.

The middle class is a group defined by more than just money: it also leans on credentials, education, aspirations, assets, and, of course, household income.

I was as middle class as it comes.

I am a normal girl from a humble, middle class family.

My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of Stalin on the mantelpiece. The kids of that generation were terrified of being below par, class-wise.

You can't kid the public. When they see me they see I'm just a kid off a council estate - no more, no less.

I grew up in the middle class.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

My upbringing was so middle-class and repressed. It wasn't until I was placed in Lunghua that I met anyone from any other social strata. When I did, I found them colossally vital.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroker's shop, and my mother was a waitress, I moved into a middle-class world with a level of security they never knew.