Hillary Clinton Quotes

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

I'm a proud product of the American middle class.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

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

America's real business leaders understand unless or until the middle class regains its footing and its faith, capitalism remains vulnerable.

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.

I would say I came from upper middle class family.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.

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

The health of a nation is not just about its consumption expenditures …. one of the things that makes America such a great nation, and why so many people aspire to this American ideal of middle-class security, is that it's about more than that. It's about more than how much you can purchase with the dollar. It's about this feeling of security and about being able to give your kids a better life than you had. And that is really the foundation—one of the major founding principles of our country

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.

I would describe myself as having a healthy income, but I sure wouldn't describe the son of a postmaster and an encyclopedia saleswoman as upper class, by any stretch of the imagination. I would describe myself as decidedly middle class. I think I'm extremely fortunate.

Middle class jobs prevent crime and violence.

What is the deepest passion for me and for us is the historic investment in the middle class and in - as I say often because I was that guy growing up - the dreams of those who look up who want to get into the middle class. That I feel the strongest about.

The middle-class ladder has rungs that no longer exist for many trying to climb higher. Instead, for too many, in too many places, their chore is simply trying to hang on.

My mother was from a middle-class background.

My parents found good paying jobs, educated me and my brother in wonderful public schools, and entered the middle class.

To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was not one of the things that my family put up with.

It's no secret that my family was very, very poor, and I don't want that for my life or my children's life certainly. But some might say I could relax a bit more and know that that's not going to happen to me. I'm not going to end up in a car.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

Today, the message is that we have to help the middle class and the aspirational worker in the United States.