Alissa Quart Quotes

I will be a President for the middle class.

A simple way to forecast the future is to look at what rich people have today; middle-income people will have something equivalent in 10 years, and poor people will have something equivalent in an additional decade.

I was as middle class as it comes.

The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily different - from a working-class terrace in Northampton to the homes of friends who were really very wealthy. It was quite an odd position to be in, I realise looking back, and quite a nice one.

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

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.

I'm painfully middle class.

As someone who came to New York in the 1970s, I was, like so many of my friends, a certified member of what we now call the 99 percent - and I was a lot closer to the bottom than to the top of that 99 percent. At some point during the intervening years, I moved into the 1 percent.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

The one class you do not belong to and are not proud of at all is the lower-middle class. No one ever describes himself as belonging to the lower-middle class.

The poor generally follow behavior patterns established by the rich.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.