I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.

A family relying on a teacher's salary or a city employee's salary is solidly middle class as long as that money's coming in. When it's cut off, they're committed to financial obligations that will quickly turn them upside down.

There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.