Noam Chomsky Quotes

I think you can have a Left that isn't culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.

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

We believe that if you want a strong middle class, you have to vote for Democrats.

California Democrats are out to kill the American dream by ridiculing the commitment to hard work.

If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

America's leaders need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

The next time you hear me attacked as a socialist - like tomorrow - remember this: I don't believe that government should take over the grocery store down the street or control the means of production. But I believe that the middle class and the working families who produce the wealth of America deserve a fair deal.

I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.

Working-class Americans want a clear champion, and there is nothing radical about moral clarity in 2018.

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.

We have to expose Republicans for the frauds that they are when it comes to what they want to do for working men and women.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

I've said we need to look at things from the perspective of working people and taxpayers, not from the perspective of government and government officials.

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.

This administration and the leadership in Congress appear to be intent on valuing wealth over work, thereby placing working families at a distinct disadvantage.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

People who work make the world live better and to reward these people well is normal. Yet they are not the people who are the wealthiest.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

The most important lesson to take away from allowing the minimum wage and unemployment benefit data to talk is that abstract notions of what is right, good and just should be examined from a concrete, operational point of view. A dose of reality is most edifying.

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