Even now it is no longer composed of the traditional political class, but of a composite layer of corporate leaders, high-level administrators, and the heads of the major professional, labor, political, and religious organisations.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
When I finally decided that my only hope was to go to college, I took an acting class, and once I walked onstage, I just knew I was home.
I remember joining a boarding school in the sixth grade. I was lazy, complacent, and fat. Suddenly, I realised that I had to fend for myself. That's when I discovered this drive within myself. For the first time, I ranked first in class, which was a miracle in itself. However, it didn't matter to my family.
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
I decided to run for Congress to get and keep people in the middle class.
Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.
I used to make fun of the kids in school who acted or went to dance class.
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
On the other hand, one factor helps us that no other liberation struggle in this region could count on - our liberation front is characterized by relatively highly developed class forces, tested in political struggles.
I remember when I took the role on E.R., I thought, 'I haven't really been able to play a working class woman. I've played girls, I've played funny, but I haven't played a working class woman. That sounds like something I'd like to do.'
I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.
The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Charles. He is class, man.
Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.
Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.
You can play Mozart all you want and pretend that it gives you class, but what is class, you know? Class is a bus driver on the M103 who gets off the bus to help somebody on board even though he's tired, he's exhausted, and he's two months behind on his mortgage. That's real class.
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.
Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.
I can distinctly remember being the only boy in my class whose parents had separated.
When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.
Some members of the ruling class are making a concerted effort to expand the wealth gap.
I love New York City in the fall, and one of my favorite events of the season is the annual World of Children Award Gala, at which I have the profound pleasure of meeting the newest class of changemakers for children who are there to receive their World of Children Award.
A secure retirement is one of the pillars of middle class life. For all too many Americans, however, that pillar needs more support.
I translated Beatles songs for my English class.
My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.
