James Carville Quotes

Every country has rich people. But only a few places have achieved a vibrant and stable middle class. And in the history of the world, none has been more vibrant and more stable than the American middle class.

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

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

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

I don't think any of us ran for the United States Senate to preside over the lowering of the American standard of living.

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

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

No matter how wealthy a few plutocrats get, we can never drive a great national economy. Only a thriving middle class can do that.

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.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

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

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

Reducing poverty is in our own interest.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

If Eleanor Roosevelt has her way, how are we going to tell the rich from the poor?

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

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

The fact that anyone lives in America is the single reason poverty is never a death sentence, and transforms it instead into - at worst - an obstacle on the path to a better life and road to freedom and success.

Relative poverty acknowledges that the definition of poverty should move with the times.

If we focus our economy on improving human outcomes instead of just a topline GDP that is increasingly going to fewer and fewer people, we can see what Americans can do when they're free to unleash their true potential.