Wall Street Quotes
“If you are more outraged at poor black folks in Missouri looting stores than rich whites on Wall Street looting your future, you have been duped” — Pete Dominick
“Do you have any idea how cheap stocks are? Wall Street is now being called Wall Mart Street” -– Jay Leno
“We need to protect main street from Wall street” — Martin O’Malley
“Business model of Wall Street is fraud. In my view, there is no better example than the recently-exposed illegal behavior at Wells Fargo” — Bernie Sanders
“The Democratic National Committee – like the Republican National Committee – has become little more than a giant machine designed to suck up big money from wealthy individuals, lobbyists, bundlers and corporate and Wall Street PACs” — Robert Reich
“If you took the greed out of Wall Street, all you’d have left is pavement” — Robert Reich
“Wall Street and stock market are metaphors for a society rotting from self-indulgence, greed, widening inequality, and financial entrepreneurship that builds nothing, improves nothing, creates nothing, and solves nothing, but merely moves money from one set of pockets to another” — Robert Reich
“Financial excesses, indeed widespread financial criminality on Wall Street, played a direct role in causing the world’s worst financial crisis since the Great Depression” — Bernie Sanders
“There’s been far, far, far more money made by people in Wall Street through salesmanship abilities than through investment abilities” — Warren Buffett
“The $28.5 billion in bonuses doled out to Wall Street employees is double the annual pay for all 1,007,000 Americans who work full-time at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour” — Sarah Anderson
“Congress doesn’t regulate Wall Street. Wall Street regulates Congress, Saying ‘please do the right thing’ is kind of naïve” — Bernie Sanders
“The tie that binds the 99% is that we’re all in debt… debt is the way that Wall Street occupies our lives” — Alexis Goldstein
“The finance industry creates 4% of jobs, but takes 25% of the profits in corporate America” — Rana Foroohar
“Banking should be about providing affordable loans to Americans who need to purchase homes and cars, not reckless gambling on Wall Street” — Bernie Sanders
“Fat cats on Wall Street, They got a bailout, While somebody else got 2 wait, 700 billion but my old neighborhood, Ain’t nothing changed but the date” — Prince
“And no Best Picture award, but ‘The Big Short’ made clear we will not forget that Wall Street broke our economy” — Elizabeth Warren
“Wall Street put billions of dollars in lobbying, in campaign contributions to get the government off their backs. They got the government off their backs. Turns out that they were crooks, and they destroyed our economy. I think it’s time to put the government back on their backs” — Bernie Sanders
“I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I’ll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it” — Ivana Trump
“I love Bitcoin because I do not trust Fed, Treasury, or Wall Street” — Robert Kiyosaki
“Don’t blame Wall Street. Don’t blame the big banks. If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!” — Herman Cain
“It’s clear now that ‘Drain the Swamp’ really meant ‘Suck up all the morally bankrupt billionaires, Wall Street executives, and special-interest pond scum, and then pump them into the White House with a fire hose” — Ben Cohen
“We have got to end the two-tier justice system — one for the poor and working class and one for Wall Street and the wealthy” — Bernie Sanders
“In my view, if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. Wall Street cannot continue to be an island unto itself investing trillions in risky financial instruments” — Bernie Sanders
“I will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street. You try to be greedy when others are fearful. And you try to be fearful when others are greedy” — Warren Buffett
“Wall Street has captured Washington at its source, the capital” — Mike Lofgren