Home / Topics / Main Street Quotes

Main Street Quotes

Browse 74 quotes about Main Street.

Related topics

Main Street Quotes

“Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.”

Streets Cleaning Parades Shovels Cleaning Up Main Street

Book:Iran-Contra investigation: joint hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, One Hundredth Congress, first session, 100-10, July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987 : testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger

Source: Iran-Contra investigation: joint hearings before the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran and the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition, One Hundredth Congress, first session, 100-10, July 30, 31, and August 3, 1987 : testimony of Donald T. Regan and Caspar W. Weinberger

“A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.”

Ifs Doe Causes White Economy Streets Effects Wall Economics Investing Collapse Crash Knuckles Main Street Stock Price

Author:Ben Bernanke

“We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.”

Source: The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“In five days, you can turn the page on policies that put greed and irresponsibility on Wall Street before the hard work and sacrifice of folks on Main Street. In five days, you can choose policies that invest in our middle class, and create new jobs, and grow this economy, so that everyone has a chance to succeed, not just the CEO, but the secretary and janitor, not just the factory owner, but the men and women on the factory floor.”

“I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America.”

People Ifs America Pay Attention Streets Wall Pay Attention Rising Tides Main Street Future Of America

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems.”

Needs Littles Problem Government Order Taken Too Much Generations Streets Return Taxes Solve Bureaucracy Main Street Multiplying

Author:George McGovern

“People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.”

People Values Streets Ready Wall Tired Greed Corruption Main Street

Author:Mike Huckabee

“I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark.”

Has Beens Wanted Hate Bits Sound Dark Walks Streets Fashion Walking I Hate Expensive Gorgeous Colorful Extravagant Sidewalk Main Street

Author:Yohji Yamamoto

“Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American capitalism. He taught a generation how to think about business, and he showed that securities were not just tokens like the Monopoly flatiron, and that investing need not be a game of chance. It was also a logical, commonsensical enterprise, like the tangible businesses beneath. He stripped Wall Street of its mystery and rejoined it to Main Street -- a mythical or disappearing place, perhaps, but one that is comprehensible to the ordinary American.”

Source: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

“In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.”

“No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.”

Thinking Men Life Should Doe Ends Able Energy Peace Imagination Effort Destiny Streets Masters Built Dedicated Stubborn Bricks Shouting Main Street

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.”

“First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization is off the table... Social Security, as a matter of fact, is a better investment now than the stock market. There's a higher return. There's guaranteed cost-of-living increases. Privatization you have to worry about the value of your account.”

“A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.”

Source: Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier

“The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America.”

Jobs America Fighting Streets Wall Healthy Safe Farms Farmers Healthy Food Main Street Food Supply Family Farms

Author:Willie Nelson

“Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.”

Enough Girl Gone Streets Reputation Pairs Jeans Back In The Day Main Street Bad Reputation Tight Jeans

Author:Linda Chavez

“If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default.”

Ifs Should Firsts Might America Lost Streets Consequence Wave Telling The Truth Boss Amendments First Amendment Default Main Street

Author:Richard S. Salant

“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.”

Ifs I Can Literature Streets Wall Covering Intrigued Main Street

Author:Neil Cavuto

“History of America, Part I (1776-1966): Declaration of Independence, Constitutional Convention, Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, Reconstruction, World War I, Great Depression, New Deal, World War II, TV, Cold war, civil-rights movement, Vietnam. History of America, Part II (1967-present): the Super Bowl era. The Super Bowl has become Main Street’s Mardi Gras.”

“I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.”

Streets Towns Small Town Main Street

Author:Ben Bernanke

“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.”

Thinking Needs Play Lasts Class Happened Streets Middle Wall Burden Decades Middle Class Bail Main Street

Author:Stephanie Cutter

“When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class.”

People Believe Country America Past Lying Class Economy Economic Streets Middle Policy Wall Keys Truth Is Our Country Middle Class Romney Recessions Main Street

Author:Charlie Gonzalez

“We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.”

Streets Drug Alcohol Cards Smoke Marijuana Drugs And Alcohol Lsd Main Street Living Right

Author:Merle Haggard

“Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.”

I Can Girl Wish Streets Havens Take Me Imaginary Dishes Select Main Street

Author:Dean Martin