Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
~By E. Joseph Cossman ~
Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.
~By Marty Meehan ~
I am the parent of teenagers, my daughters are 13 and 15, so the issue of Internet safety has been an important issue. I have been visiting middle schools to talk about some of the challenges that they face.
~By Melissa Bean ~
U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
~By Richard Armitage ~
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
~By Anzia Yezierska ~
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
~By Mark Haddon ~
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
~By Robert Runcie ~
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.
~By Susan George ~
Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
~By Dennis Wilson ~
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
~By Harold Wilson ~
We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
~By Alia Shawkat ~
Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
~By Kate Smith ~
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
~By Taylor Swift ~
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
~By Julia Louis Dreyfus ~
No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time.
~By Ben Shahn ~
None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.
~By Charlie Sheen ~
Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
~By David Hackworth ~
I have been using delay and reverberation since the middle 1960s. I use them to make what is almost inaudible to the ear, audible. I do not use them to play loudly but to make the higher harmonics heard.
~By Bill Dixon ~
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
~By Ace Frehley ~
President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
~By Louise Bogan ~
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.
~By William Henry Hudson ~
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?
~By Amy Grant ~
I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the movie comes out and I see it. I don't even know what it is yet. I've still been in the middle of it.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.
~By Joe Sacco ~
None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.
~By Christopher Dodd ~
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
~By Simon Raven ~
I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.
~By James Ellroy ~
As we move toward a new Middle East, over the years and, I think, over the decades to come, we will make a lot of people very nervous.
~By James Woolsey ~
I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together.
~By Dorothy Fields ~
I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
A deliberate choice on my part was for the player to continue to find new possibilities in the early Attic rooms far into the game. I think this builds atmosphere, though it means there's no neat division of the prologue from the middle game.
~By Graham Nelson ~
I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.
~By Stephanie Beacham ~
I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
~By Natalie Portman ~
Put simply, the Bush administration policy in the Middle East is continuing to fail.
~By Jerome Corsi ~
This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
~By Ogden Nash ~
I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
~By Charles Keating ~
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.
~By Barack Obama ~
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
~By Rory Bremner ~
I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
~By Steven Spielberg ~
Many of the Iroquois and Huron houses were of similar construction, the partitions being at the sides only, leaving a wide passage down the middle of the house.
~By Francis Parkman ~
The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves.
~By David Axelrod ~
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
~By Ayn Rand ~
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
~By Andre Gide ~
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
~By Mike Watt ~
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
~By Leslie Caron ~
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
~By Ben Stein ~
My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.
~By Donna Mills ~
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
~By Bob Uecker ~
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.
~By Howard Dean ~
Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
~By Paul Reiser ~
I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
As the middle begins to feel safe enough to accept some of the so-called radical thinking, ideas move to the middle and a new edge is created.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
~By Jessamyn West ~
Even though we're not the most punk rock band, the way we've done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.
~By Brandon Thomas ~
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
~By Don Marquis ~
We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.
~By David Pleat ~
When I look out at the audience at some of our shows, I think we are reaching a younger audience... I see lots of people in their 30s and 40s, but I also see a lot of people in their young and middle teens, and that's definitely reassuring.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
~By Alice Rivlin ~
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.
~By Judith Martin ~
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
~By Robert Frost ~
And I also have a camera, a Web cam, and I have one at home, so I can hook up and talk to the girls, and they can see me while we're on the bus in the middle of nowhere.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way.
~By Peter Jurasik ~
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
~By Dario Fo ~
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
~By Bob Hope ~
In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
~By James Earl Jones ~
Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
~By Christopher Eccleston ~
The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.
~By John Dingell ~
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.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
~By Jessica Lynch ~
We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
~By Dan Marino ~
A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
~By Rahm Emanuel ~
I really believe that's one of the many reasons that God had put me right in the middle of the Backstreet Boys. There are so many stars today that don't realize the impact they have on young people. Being a superstar is great, as long as you can be a positive role model.
~By Brian Littrell ~
All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.
~By James Norman Hall ~
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
~By Ted Nugent ~
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
~By Patrick J. Kennedy ~
The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany.
~By George Santayana ~
Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
~By Marianne Moore ~
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