Tom Harkin actually said...

"Access to affordable health care coverage means that middle-class workers are no longer one injury or illness away from financial ruin and descent into poverty."

"If we want at the very least to preserve the existing middle class, we have to continue to extend unemployment benefits."

"we can't have a strong economy without a strong middle class, and we won't have a sustainable economic recovery without the recovery of our middle class."

"Americans don't expect to be rich or privileged, but they do expect to be treated fairly and they deserve to have the opportunity to build a better life for their children."