Bob Casey Jr. Quotes

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

You alleviate poverty by trickle-down economics.

Bill Clinton has done more to help the middle class than any leader in decades.

President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.

From the day he first walked through the door of the Oval Office, President Obama's top priority has been growing our economy, creating good jobs, and rebuilding middle class security.

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy.

Tax cuts that actually go to working-class, middle-class people, I'm not opposed to.

Federal policies must understand the linkages between economic growth, social mobility, and a strong middle class.

One of the things we wrestle with nationally is, 'If we want the economy to be strong, what should we do?' Why not learn some lessons from Virginia?

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth, how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.

We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and reward companies that create jobs at home.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

Tax cuts are an investment in working families.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

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

Having a decent share of the national wealth for the middle class is not bad for growth. It is actually useful both for equity and efficiency reasons.

Are we interested in treating the symptoms of poverty and economic stagnation through income redistribution and class warfare, or do we want to go at the root causes of poverty and economic stagnation by promoting pro-growth policies that promote prosperity?

We want an economic team, Paul Krugman and Robert Kuttner, Joseph Steiglitz's people and others, who say, you know what? We're sophisticated economists but we're concerned about poor and working people.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

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

I always like to say, Bill Clinton created more millionaires and billionaires than any president, but you know what, more people moved out of poverty. Middle-class income - all-time high.