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• 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 classc. Mitt Romney’s plans would make things worse.

  Charles Schumer

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• The Fed has got to become a more democratic institution that is responsive to the needs of the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs.

  Bernie Sanders

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• The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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• By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

  John Podhoretz

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• I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

  Willie Stargell

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• Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.

  Ayn Rand

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• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can’t afford it. And I refuse to renew them again.

  Barack Obama

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• A lot of Americans think they got a tax cut, and they didn’t because their local property tax went up, their excise tax went up, their sales tax went up, and their prices went up and everything else, because we failed to invest in some of these other things we ought to be doing. … We are squeezing the middle class, we are losing the middle class, and the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing wider and wider, not closing as it used to be.

  John Kerry

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