I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

Elm Street was the dividing line between the two worlds. On either side of this line there were families who had trouble making both ends meet, but those who lived below the intersection didn't bother to conceal it.

I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.