Corey Stewart Quotes

I represent a blue-collar district: people who work at petrochemical plants and machine shops.

Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

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

The people I represent in Northeast Ohio and the tens of millions of workers across our country are proud to be called blue collar.

I grew up middle class, my best friends to this day are construction workers or military or whatever it is.

The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

I make films about working class people.

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

The bourgeois are other people.

I've never felt entirely comfortable in high society. I'm more comfortable talking to the bar staff than the super-rich. I don't really get what makes them tick.

Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

I've never been aware of the difference between so-called posh actors and working-class actors.

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

I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

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.

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

Our ancestors who migrated hither were laborers, not lawyers.

The working people are the basis of all government, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

‘The laboring poor’ is a detestable, canting phrase.

I'm very blue collar myself. So it was easy for me to embody that in a sense. It's much harder for me to embody Norrell than it is to embody Terry Donovan.

In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

I do not like the rich.