Robert Menzies Quotes

The middle class is both real and aspirational. And I want to make sure that it remains strong and it gives people a sense of security and confidence and optimism about their futures.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

I still belong to a middle class family; middle class is a mindset than your financial status.

I think the working-class part of me comes out. Sometimes the people who have the loudest mouths are upper-class, upper-middle-class. The quietest are often working-class people, people who are broke. There is a fear of losing whatever it is that you have. I come from that background.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

Look at the [Bill] Clinton Administration and now the [Barack] Obama administration more recently. What we believe is that we implement policies that help people reach the middle class which is the cornerstone of our economy.

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

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.

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

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.

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.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

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

I will be a President for the middle class.

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.

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

The middle class is the engine of this economy.

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.