From 1934 to 1963, the biggest criminals in America ended up on Alcatraz. Nowadays they end up on Wall Street. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
Years ago, as I was beginning my professional career on Wall Street, I volunteered as a Big Brother in New York City. — Gerald Chertavian Copy Share Image
I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for… — James A. Forbes Copy Share Image
It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
“Occupy Wall Street and the Free State Project were ostensibly leaderless organizations that eschewed new power hierarchies.” — Nathaniel Popper Copy Share Image
Monica Langley of the "Wall Street Journal" is reporting that Donald Trump's strategy is essentially two-pronged. that he's trying to use the… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know)… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Many skeptics, it is true, are inclined to dismiss the whole procedure [chart reading] as akin to astrology or necromancy; but the… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they're directing their unhappiness now toward… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I actually never thought that Barack Obama was anything but a typical Democratic party politician, which to me meant that he was… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I called for a consumer protection financial bureau before it was created. And I think the best evidence that the Wall Street… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
[Conservatives] go to church, they do lots of things for free for each other. They hold potluck dinners. ... They serve food… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“In 1996, my first year on Wall Street, the New York Times wrote a story pointing out that IBM, which had employed… — Danielle DiMartino Booth Copy Share Image
You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“It’s become a cliché by now, but since 2008, no high-ranking executive from any financial institution has gone to jail, not one,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
My hope is that the film Wall Street 2 will actually serve as a way for us to bridge that gap between… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as… — Smedley D. Butler Copy Share Image
“If we understand how a person’s body influences risk taking, we can learn how to better manage risk takers. We can also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't you know that the less you tell someone, the more they want to know? You're better off to make something up… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn’t really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The idea that it's smart to allow Wall Street firms, with this "too big to fail" imprimatur, to become hedge funds again… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“I gave up trying to establish where progress lay, and where revolution, or to see the plot -- as Amparo's [Brazilian] comrades… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have this theory," says Andy Stone, seated in his office at Prudential-Bache Securities. "Wall Street makes its best producers into managers.… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image