Barack Obama Quotes

And as we work together, we will build a better America! As we work together, we will bring the middle class to thrive again! As we work together, we will make sure that everybody has the ladder of opportunity to climb!

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

We've got to get back to rebuilding the middle class, the families of America. That's where growth will come from.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

The best cure for poverty is a booming economy.

The middle class is the engine of this economy.

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

Middle class prosperity—economics—depended on middle class power—politics.

I know why we're strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it's because there's always been a growing middle class.

We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.

What has worked for America is not caring about how the rich are doing, or the politics of envy. What's worked for America is growth. Growth is the reason why I had a very nice middle class upbringing with parents who never went to college.

We became enthralled with the view that wealth trickled down from the top and that if you poured money into rich people, sort of like an ingredient, prosperity and jobs would squirt out of them like donuts. And if you understand economies in the 19th-century way, that view is plausible, and I think a lot of people accepted it.

It wasn't simply that Clinton created the greatest prosperity in the country's history. Or that we created 22 million new jobs, more than ever before. Under Clinton, poverty was reduced 25%.

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

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

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

Our economy grows from the middle out, not the top down.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

Because we believe that you got to build the economy from middle out and not from the top down.

The wealth of a country is in its working people.

The native American, like the alien immigrant, conceives the better future which awaits himself and other men in America as fundamentally a future in which economic prosperity will be still more abundant and still more accessible than it has yet been either here or abroad.

Americans have historically been more willing than Europeans to tolerate high inequality levels if accompanied by strong economic growth and a healthy middle class.