Socioeconomic Shift Quotes

When I started in the press there were really ink-stained wretches. Not everybody went to college. Now, everybody at the New York Times and the Washington Post and Salon and Slate, most of them have Ivy League educations.

When I grew up on the south side of Chicago, it was kind of a rough neighborhood, and when my parents saw the prospect of my older sister going to middle school, high school, they decided that we would move to the north side of Chicago, Highland Park, and for me, that was a whole new ballgame.

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.

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

If this country ever had a military of the poor, it no longer does.

You can't go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary, and really understand it, and come out a liberal.