Wall Street quotes

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

What you’re seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they’re directing their unhappiness now toward Wall Street and toward those they think are doing too well in our society.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it – not by turning it over to Wall Street.

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That’s one reason why you get so many credit card offers.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Food Stamp recipients didn’t cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.

Wall Street apparently takes and then forgets, and then comes after the guns of law-abiding American citizens and small businesses.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

We also cannot allow Wall Street banks to rewrite the Second Amendment just because they’re too big to fail.