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The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.


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DAVID HARVEY Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.
CHARLIE MUNGER It isn't enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political s...
COLIN POWELL Occupy Wall Street-The writing on the wall for the American establishment?
MUHAMMED HAIDER Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country st...
ELIOT SPITZER Internet companies created the social-media tools that fueled the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street i...
REBECCA MACKINNON I locate a great deal of the power of Occupy Wall Street in the name itself, 'Occupy Wall Street...
DANA SPIOTTA When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our c...
CHARLIE GONZALEZ Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizi...
HILLARY CLINTON I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little clo...
WOODY HARRELSON If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there wi...
DAVID HARVEY I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a liv...
TINA BROWN It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way...
M. STANTON EVANS The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, w...
JOHN LYDON The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors cryin...
JOHN GARAMENDI Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the sa...
STEPHANIE CUTTER The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in Ame...
GEORGE PACKER At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't...
VLADIMIR PUTIN Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help get them back in bed again
WILL ROGERS ... inequality matters ... If you get sick without health coverage, inequality matters. If you're th...
BILL MOYERS ... inequality matters ... is what it takes to live a decent life. If you get sick without health co...
BILL MOYERS What you're seeing with Occupy Wall Street and the others are people who are unhappy and they...
COLIN POWELL First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.
JIM DEMINT Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy t...
ERIC ALTERMAN America to withdraw its troops from Iraq ahead of schedule. To prepare for the "civil war" brewing b...
MUHAMMED HAIDER Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Wa...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN I think America is in trouble, but it's not beyond repair. But it's going to take leadership...
MIKE HUCKABEE You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In t...
BERNIE SANDERS Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people...
DANA SPIOTTA From the streets of Cairo and the Arab Spring, to Occupy Wall Street, from the busy political calend...
DAN RATHER The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some a...
ELIOT SPITZER You will notice that the Occupy Wall Street crowds - and the progressives who support them - focus o...
DAVID HARSANYI I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better...
ELAYNE BOOSLER With a lack of any key economic news, once again the direction of the dollar is linked to the volati...
ALEX BEUZELIN Isn't it amazing that our governing officials can so readily identify violations of the rights and a...
CAMILLO MAC BICA I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange ...
KEITH ROTHFUS Occupy Wall Street didn't just spring from the earth organically, out of thin air. This was all ...
MONICA CROWLEY Political equality is meaningless in the face of economic inequality.
ECONOMIC What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on ...
LAURENCE D. FINK The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and ...
JAMES A. FORBES We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian org...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, b...
MICHAEL MOORE I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity be...
ALAN GREENSPAN Here's an irony of the history of conservatism's relationship with business and business'...
RICK PERLSTEIN One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of...
BRIAN BEHLENDORF It is easy for Americans to forget a simple fact that is very clear to the people around the world t...
MILO YIANNOPOULOS to the victor go the spoils
THE AMERICA It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every plac...
D'ANGELO I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to ...
DAVID TEPPER I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
YVES SAINT LAURENT I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r...
DAYMOND JOHN The 1% has still to cover 99% of the distance to reach their goal. The journey has just begun.
MUHAMMED HAIDER The system’s not broken. It’s fixed.
OCCUPY WALL STREET (OWS) The ruby at Melisandre's throat gleamed red. "It is not those foes who curse you to your face that y...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The fight to change Wal-Mart is quickly becoming one of the most important political issues in Ameri...
JOE HANSEN The shortcomings of America's political leaders do not stop at our borders.
RALPH NADER In the same way that Occupy Wall Street forever elevated that concept of income inequality, the Blac...
CHARLES M. BLOW In the Tea Party narrative, victory at the polls means a new American revolution, one that will '...
MATT TAIBBI Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street...
BERNIE SANDERS The love for country must be first & above any political office you greatly desire to occupy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of dis...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code h...
JIM HIGHTOWER The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the w...
HELENE D. GAYLE America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in ...
DINESH D'SOUZA We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghani...
GROVER NORQUIST Principle says it's not who put forth an idea. It's not the position of the person who put f...
DAN WEBSTER Freedom of religion is a fundamental Constitutional principle. It's a founding principle of this...
PAUL RYAN The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witness...
SIGMAR GABRIEL In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie.
MICHAEL DOUGLAS To understand Occupy Wall Street, you have to understand artists. Art is freedom - freedom of expres...
PETER M. BRANT America's honor, your honor is at stake. Go out and preserve the greatest country in the history...
RICK SANTORUM Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able...
P. J. O'ROURKE There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste...
ANDREW ROSS SORKIN My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the l...
LESLIE MORGAN STEINER Wall Street has lost business to fee-based advisers in the last several years.
DOUGLAS GILL Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, a...
BASHAR AL-ASSAD Once Wall Street starts putting money into Bitcoin - we're talking about hundreds of millions, b...
BARRY SILBERT Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street fir...
ROBERT POZEN ..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying part...
NOAM CHOMSKY Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to...
LEMONY SNICKET Wall Street indices predicted nine out of the last five recessions!
PAUL A. SAMUELSON Organizing is our core principle. It is our north star.
ANNA BURGER WorldCom is frustrated because Wall Street investors just look at the total company. Wall Street isn...
CHARLES DISANZA Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fa...
RICHARD DREYFUSS It's time to put the national interest before the interests of Wall Street.
MARTIN O'MALLEY I went to the U.S. for business because I thought America is a big consuming country, although it...
ZHANG YIN It's unfortunate that Jon Tester would join the political hacks in Montana who have recklessly attac...
BRIAN NICK Most of our pollution control in America will come through good old-fashioned Wall Street financing.
JAMES CONNAUGHTON Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall S...
GARY WEISS Sharia has become an increasingly significant force in American capitalism, thanks to the embrace by...
FRANK GAFFNEY Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese gover...
JIANG XIAOYU My dream is of a place and time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that...
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE I don't think I'm an angry person. I think I'm a person who's angry. I'm angry a...
AL FRANKEN My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of ear...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
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JON STEWART The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience an...
JON LESTER One gets the impression that Elvis Presley does what his business advisors think will be most profit...
JON LANDAU The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for th...
JON ORINGER That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close ...
JON HURWITZ Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought ab...
JON PORTER There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how t...
JON ORINGER Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Po...
JON KATZ I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house...
JON STEWART When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantl...
JON TENNEY The Rolling Stones have been the best of all possible worlds: they have the lack of pretension and s...
JON LANDAU I'm just thankful I'm surrounded by good people.
JON PARDI Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines,...
JON SCIESZKA Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the...
JON SECADA I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.
JON PARDI First of all, this whole idea of this one percent versus the 99 percent, it's a false statistic....
JON LOVITZ Gallien cứ băn khoăn không hiểu liệu có phải anh đã nhặt ở cuối bang thứ bốn...
JON KRAKAUER Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and ...
JON TENNEY Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their...
JON LANDAU It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything els...
JON LANDAU I held top-secret security clearance.
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