Tucker Carlson Quotes

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

The greatest problem America faces is the decline of middle class incomes.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.

I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.

Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return.

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

In the old days the problems of government were few and political, now they are many and are economic and sociological ...

Choose equality …. Inequality has the natural and necessary effect … of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.

We cannot continue to have the upper class wealty getting richer and richer, the middle class shrinking and 43 million living in poverty.

And I want to thank Bernie Sanders. Bernie, your campaign inspired millions of Americans, particularly the young people who threw their hearts and souls into our primary. You've put economic and social justice issues front and center, where they belong.

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The '99 percent' is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.

Income inequality has become so prevalent in the U.S. that examples of its negative impact on the middle class are as common as Kanye West saying something cringeworthy in the media.

America needs a new generation of leaders to address the big issues facing the country: alleviating the middle class squeeze and promoting economic opportunity, confronting the significant national security challenges threatening the safety of our people, and reforming the culture of Washington, D.C.

I see that that 'American dream' is slipping away because we're not solving the problems of today, we're not planning for the future.

It is absolute poverty that you could end, but I think relative poverty is a whole other issue.

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.