Class Quotes

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

My son has been a class clown and it sort of ran in the family.

I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.

Yes, look, social class is definitely an issue in Britain, it is definitely an issue and I think that most people across the country would sympathise with the idea that there are lots of people with talent and ability all across this country who want to make more of themselves and part of the responsibility of government is to make that happen.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

I think our voters have made it clear. Unless someone can demonstrate to me that having larger class sizes is better than having smaller class sizes, I'm not going to support it.

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

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.

And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

Dinah had all the class.

There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him.

Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture.

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.

Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

I am pleased to be considered a 'denier' in this cause if this puts me in the class with those who defied prevailing 'scientific consensus' that the earth was flat and that the earth was the not the center of the universe.

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business.

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars.

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.