Fabrizio Moreira Quotes

Democrats don't relate to middle-class people.

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

The Corbynista brand of politics representing metropolitan, middle class, pro-open border values is far removed from millions of Labour voters, especially those who voted Leave in the referendum.

The Democrats have failed to have a real robust message for working-class people in places like Ohio - these states that Donald Trump came in and won.

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

While our corporatists burn incense at the shrine of the global economy, Trump went to visit the working-class casualties. And those forgotten Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin responded.

That is exactly what Mr. Trump is: The working man and woman's CEO.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.

The hardest-hit taxpayers in our disgraceful tax system are those folks who pack Trump's rallies, especially in hard-hit Rust Belt states like Ohio and Michigan.

This is a historic disaster of Biblical proportions. The Democratic Party, as it is, is dead. This is a historic realignment. There were Reagan Democrats. Now there are Trump Democrats. The elites of this country alienated voters everywhere because they didn’t want to hear what working and middle class voters were screaming for four years—focus on us and our problems, not your agenda to destroy Trump.

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.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

The working class of England today have no vision of society beyond the acquisitive - no version of themselves or their habits as anything other than transitional, on their way up or on their way out. The working class, at best, is a waiting room for people who aim to become middle class if possible.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.

You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

The middle-class America of my youth was another country.

Republicans look after the rich, and Democrats focus on the needs of the middle class. Neither of them looks after the poor.

I have lost middle America.