Barack Obama Quotes

We are not going back to the failed policies of the past. We are fighting for the middle class!

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

I'm trying to stand up so that the middle class, the working class, can finally have a say. I put them as my No. 1 priority.

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.

I will be a President for the middle class.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

If it's conservative to say we need to help the middle class, then I'm a conservative.

I believe the benefits of tax reform should flow to those who most need them most - hard-pressed working families struggling to reach or stay in the middle class.

In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security. But instead, families' hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn't understand it.

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

I was raised to stand up for the little guy, for working families and the middle class.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

It's really Democrats who are fighting for working families and small businesses and trying to address the biggest problems that we have, which are huge disparities in incomes and wealth and money influencing the Democratic process.

Middle class people, I think they realize that Romney is not for them because of his narrowness, but they want to make sure that Barack Obama is focused on them with things that will make a difference. They know he tried, but they also know that it didn't do as well as they would have liked.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

The Populist Caucus is the only caucus in Congress devoted solely to addressing middle class economic issues. We formed the caucus because the founding members felt like there wasn't enough focus on middle class issues in Washington, and we're going to keep it focused on middle class issues.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

This is the middle-class equivalent of raising the minimum wage.