Ron Wyden actually said...

"Those kind of efforts, particularly in terms of education, they are absolutely key to repairing this pretty tattered ladder of opportunity."

"The fact is, too many middle-class Oregonians are hurting."

"There has to be a way to help the middle class who are hurting, like that auto worker, and get people out from under the bureaucratic water torture."

"I am of the view that we grow the economy from the middle out, that you have to get the relief to a broad spectrum of middle-class Americans."