Armstrong Williams Quotes

I have so much respect for people who do blue-collar work because I come from that background myself.

I represent hardworking people. That's who raised me. That's who I grew up around.

When I'm home, the heart and soul of our family is in the kitchen. Growing up, my parents both worked, so dinnertime was for family - the TV was off. I think it's important to grab that time and really make it special, even after a tough day.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day to day.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.

I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

I'm a Detroit kid who grew up with that assembly line mentality: You go to work to make money.

There was a time when you could make a living by the sweat of your brow. Those days are over!

No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty.

The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital; whose weal and woe, whose life and death, whose sole existence depends on the demand for labor – hence, on the changing state of business, on the vagaries of unbridled competition.

There’s been an economic war going on in this country and the middle class and the poor have been losing..

My grandfather was a Pullman porter, and my father put his way through college by cleaning floors at night in the libraries. I understand that working people are in some way the bedrock of my existence and the existence of many people here.

I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.

All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

Stanley Hudson was the embodiment of many workers in America, both male and female. Creating the nuances of the character was fun and challenging in that much of his very being was grounded in his ability to editorialize any given situation, much of the time without uttering a single word.

I come from a working class background, it wasn't easy for me at all, but I worked hard.

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

The working class who toil everyday to pay their rent and put food on their families' tables are tired of being lectured by the fat cats in Washington and Brussels who preach what we need and when we need it.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

If you do a fifteen hour day on a film, there's a lot of time standing around but at the end of that, you want to go home to your hotel room and have a bite to eat, watch a movie and go to bed.