Clive Bell Quotes

I want ordinary people to enjoy a decent standard of living, with ever increasing security, comfort and joy.

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

Our goal is to upgrade the life of China's middle class. We all want to live better.

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.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

I grew up in the middle class.

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

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

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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 am hard-core middle class.

And living in Australia I am relatively well off.

I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'

Coming from where I came from, it was unimaginable to ever be wealthy. That was just too far out of my reach.

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

I care about my quality of life and money.

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

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

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.

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.