Quotes About Finance

I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

In the past, liberals have competed to see who could shout the loudest to shut down the banks, ridicule success, and penalize anyone working in finance. In fact, the Occupy Wall Street movement was an aggressive liberal effort to shut down Wall Street banks.

No doubt bias exists everywhere, but Wall Street is a ferocious battlefield with everyone in search of the next rainmaker or best strategy. It shouldn't matter who delivers it.

Wall Street sharks will go where they smell the blood, and you cannot change that.

I turned on Wall Street for the same reason everybody else did: The American taxpayer was forced to cut mook deals to bail out guys who didn't deserve it.

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

We just haven't had enough women in senior roles on Wall Street overall - fewer women in the investment banking function overall as well.

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

Having billions of dollars immediately available to plug budget holes without raising taxes is very appealing. And to the delight of Wall Street investors, state and local governments often fail to ask the important questions or consider the long-term impact.

I don't think my wheelhouse is comfortable in Wall Street. My wheelhouse is small-town America.

I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

Wall Street is always too biased toward short-term profitability and biased against long-term growth.

We're going to be aggressive on Wall Street and in Albany and on Medicaid fraud.

I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street.

Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.