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Heres yer boi.
"And what I believe is, is that America does best when the middle class does better, and when ordinary folks who maybe were born into poverty are able to climb their way into the middle class, that’s good for everybody. The economy grows best not from the top down, but from the bottom up and from the middle out." (Applause.)
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/26/remarks-president-middle-class-economics
Obama talking-points 2015