Bill Foster Quotes

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

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.

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

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

We prefer paychecks to welfare checks for the American people and a robust middle class with rising wages.

Poverty is poverty. At the end of the day, people want a job.

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

Americans are falling out of the middle class, not into it. And they deserve relief. I absolute support extending the Bush tax cuts for those who work the hardest and invest the most in our economy - the real drivers of American growth, the middle class.

Without better economic opportunity, you can't have better public security and vice versa.

A thriving middle class is the source of growth in a technological, capitalist economy. Investing in the middle class is the most pro-business thing you can do.

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

In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather than providing tax breaks for large corporations.

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.

I'm a warrior for the middle class.

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

There are some templates that are in place for bipartisan investment in ways to make our economy stronger and ways to lift the middle class and help the vulnerable.

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

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