After all, Wall Street is clearly the most powerful lobbying force on Capitol Hill. From 1998 through 2008, the financial sector spent over $5 billion in lobbying and campaign contributions to deregulate Wall Street.
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Related Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country st... ELIOT SPITZER Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying... ELIZABETH WARREN Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, woul... BERNIE SANDERS The Occupy Wall Street protests are shining a national spotlight on the most powerful, dangerous and... BERNIE SANDERS Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street. JANET YELLEN Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama. NINA EASTON All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certai... DANA SPIOTTA Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall St... GLENN GREENWALD I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall St... MIKE PENCE On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is jus... TIMOTHY NOAH My actual statement during the campaign was I want to be the sheriff of Wall Street, Albany and Main... ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did. BARACK OBAMA We never know what Wall Street will love and what Wall Street won't love, ... We have to do the thin... JEFF SMULYAN You might see some relief (on Wall Street) after the G7 meeting. BILL MEEHAN Occupy Wall Street-The writing on the wall for the American establishment? MUHAMMED HAIDER Without pressure from Wall Street, they would never have got things moving. It took Wall Street to w... BRAD RUBIN Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke. PETER SCHIFF The sharp rally on Wall Street is filtering through the currency market and lifting the U.S. dollar. ALEX BEUZELIN Our lobbying contributions, like our political contributions, are in the public domain. DENISE FOY Most of our pollution control in America will come through good old-fashioned Wall Street financing. JAMES CONNAUGHTON Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street fir... ROBERT POZEN Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the sa... STEPHANIE CUTTER The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York. RON CHERNOW The hole in the wall is primarily to prevent babies from dying in the street. KATE ALLEN It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to cap... MARIA CANTWELL If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall S... GARY WEISS The hole in the wall is primarily to prevent babies from dying in the street. KATE ALLEN We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought... ELIZABETH WARREN There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly ste... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN WorldCom is frustrated because Wall Street investors just look at the total company. Wall Street isn... CHARLES DISANZA I've been on Wall Street once in my life in 1980 as a tourist. I went to see the stock exchange ... KEITH ROTHFUS I think Wall Street is very important, especially to tech companies. Wall Street will get in their r... DAYMOND JOHN My party needs to listen to Main Street, not to Wall Street on this issue. GARY BAUER Be patient - there's the rarest thing on Wall Street. JEFF SAUT What's the latest dope on Wall Street?" "My son! HENNY YOUNGMAN I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. BEN NELSON I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are, because this was the darling of W... GARY FRAZIER I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are, because this was the darling of W... GARY FRAZIER I understand why Wall Street is responding as violent as they are because this was the darling of Wa... GARY FRAZIER The conventional view on Wall Street is that the Medicare formularies mimic commercial formularies, ... DAN MENDELSON Wall Street is sliding and Mexico is taking it on the chin as usual. GEOFFREY DENNIS The sharp gains on Wall Street failed to restore investors' confidence. STANLEY CHOU Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his... JOE BIDEN I have very good friends on Wall Street. STEVE MNUCHIN The whole story this week was about maintaining and improving confidence ? from the Fed and from Wal... BARRY HYMAN Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover. ALEX WONG What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street. DAVID WINTERS It's Wall Street rather than Main Street that's getting rich. CLEMENT GIGNAC It's primarily to impress Wall Street. RICHARD ADAMS For the most part, Christmas is here and everyone is taking a well-deserved break, including Wall St... ANDRE BAKHOS I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. BEN NELSON The items discussed in the Wall Street Journal article are not fixed -- far from it. POLK LAFFOON I volunteered to join Mr. Trump's campaign because he is a champion of working families, not Was... SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street. BRAD HINTZ Government unions should not be allowed to influence the public officials they are lobbying, and sit... BRUCE RAUNER First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote. JIM DEMINT Mitt Romney was not a businessman; he was a master financial speculator who bought, sold, flipped, a... DAVID STOCKMAN I do a lot of paintings all over New York, and also all over the world, but Wall Street, it is so pe... KAMIL KUBIK I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street. ANDREW YOUNG In 'Wall Street,' Charlie Sheen carried that movie. MICHAEL DOUGLAS I left Goldman Sachs. I was thinking about going to another Wall Street place. I didn't want to ... DAVID TEPPER Is it going to stop the practices? By and large, yes. Completely? No, ... The big issue is not what ... BILL SINGER Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, b... MICHAEL MOORE Hank Paulson, obviously, had spent his career on Wall Street, had a deep knowledge of the Street, an... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN They're very interested in sending their graduates out to Main Street as well as Wall Street. BEN BARON Wall Street cares to the extent that Washington cares. BRIAN GARDNER You know, I think many people have the mistaken impression that Congress regulates Wall Street. In t... BERNIE SANDERS People talk about Wall Street greed, but one of the things many people don't understand is that ... GEOFFREY CANADA This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We foug... MARY LEASE Another story tells of Grogan, passing through New York, performed a public burning of dollar bills,... JEFF NUTTALL The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the va... ROBERT REICH We're taking on Wall Street. We're buying 50 percent over the minimum number of shares required to s... BRUCE FRIEDRICH There is still a worry about a possible major correction on Wall Street in the short term. EUGENE LAW There's no visibility, to put it in Wall Street terms, ERIC FRY This is absolutely what was needed to satisfy Wall Street. CSABA CSERE Wall Street people learn nothing and forget everything. BENJAMIN GRAHAM I don't think Main Street cares. But it would improve the mood on Wall Street. Little things like th... BRIAN GENDREAU Wall Street is littered with clever plans to use financial instruments to change behavior - carbon t... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Do you think The Wall Street Journal is a subversive publication? MICHAEL TIGAR I spent 33 years in the Marines. Most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for... SMEDLEY BUTLER If Wall Street, corporate users and real estate owners are looking to the service sector for informa... IAN CAMERON Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l... DEBORAH MOGGACH Whether it is Obamacare, the stimulus, Wall Street bailouts, the food safety bill - on vote after vo... ADAM HASNER But when have I ever needed saving? "Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro... TRACY WARD I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's ... SMEDLEY D. BUTLER Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the Wall Street bailout. MICHELE BACHMANN Wall Street has too much wealth and political power. CHARLIE MUNGER Marshall is a brilliant financial strategist. When it comes to working with Wall Street, he is a sta... BURT III Marshall is a brilliant financial strategist. When it comes to working with Wall Street, he is a sta... BURT FLICKINGER III What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on ... LAURENCE D. FINK The Chinese spend no money on lobbying. Their lobbying is really done by the American business commu... JAMES SASSER We had a positive lead from Wall Street. Oil prices were up again. ERIC BETTS Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people... DANA SPIOTTA The oil price and the rally on Wall Street will definitely help us move higher today. LEX BOUWMEESTER What they'll be marketing to Wall Street is asset value and growth potential. CRAIG PARSONS The market saw through the Fed's inspiring comments about the economic recovery because it moved to ... ALIA BAIG I read that in the Wall Street Journal, and I find it rather offensive, LOIS CAPPS Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or... EDMUND MORRIS Dick Parsons has the support of Wall Street, generally speaking. HAL VOGEL You must make some decisions Wall Street dislikes. NELSON PELTZ
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