“When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.” KnowsMadeStreetsWallDiversityMade ItJuniors Author:Sallie Krawcheck
“There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and walk away with it, or take something off a wall and the sound of the glue ripping makes people turn around. Your heart is racing, it's a rush.” PeopleHeartTurnsSoundWalksViewsWallNewspapersStealingRacingThrillGlue Author:George Carlin
“I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.” PeopleLongStillsStatesEnoughLeftChurchPoorPartyWatchesStreetsWallNewsCapitalismStandingMovedUnionsEverydayCastsEntertainmentShipsWitnessTriumphCorporatePoor PeopleChurch And StateFashionablePiratePredatorOverboardStanding StillZealotCroniesCouplingSycophantsCrony Capitalism Author:Bill Moyers
“There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this. And there are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it. [Donald Trump] has a promise that he made to the American people which is to secure our border. A wall is a big part of that.” PeopleWayMadeDifferentBigsPayWallTrumpPromiseSecureBordersDifferent WaysMexicoDefining Author:Paul Ryan
“We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.” WantYearsBookDoneLawGoalPresidentWallTrumpTenYears AgoAgreeIncludingFavorsFinanceSecureBordersBarriersSouthernConstruction Author:Paul Ryan
“I think Donald Trump is a master of moving on from losses when he suffered them, and if he can`t find a way in the short term to get the wall paid for by Mexico, I think he`ll Trumpet the fact that the wall is being built.” IfsThinkingWayFactsMovingTermLossMastersWallTrumpBuiltPaidMexicoShort TermTrumpets Author:Mark Halperin
“Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.” ShouldMadeDoneClearBuildingWallTrumpRepublicanAgreeCongressSpeakers Author:Mark Halperin
“You saw in your interview with Speaker [Paul] Ryan, though, an echo of what the White House and the president [Donald Trump] have started to say, which is, well, we`re not going to get a check from Mexico to pay for the wall on the front end. We`re going to find some way to get the money back, but initially will be paid for by the U.S.” WayWellsEndsHousePresidentWhitePaySawsFrontsWallTrumpPaidChecksInterviewsWhite HouseMexicoSpeakersEchoes Author:Mark Halperin
“I was part of the gang of eight in the house in 2013 that was working on comprehensive immigration reform. We talked a lot about border security and what was effective and what was not. Walls are not effective when you`re out in the desert and you don`t need them.” NeedsHouseSecurityWallEightImmigrationReformDesertBordersGangComprehensiveImmigration ReformBorder Security Author:John Yarmuth
“Walls are very important when you`re separating two urban areas where if you`re actually able to get over the border you can probably get into the underground network in about 30 seconds. But when you`re out in the middle of the desert, it makes no sense because you have border security people have up to a day to apprehend people who are crossing illegally.” PeopleIfsTwoImportantAbleMiddleSecurityWallAreasDesertBordersSecondsUrbanGet OverCrossingsSeparatingBorder SecurityUrban Areas Author:John Yarmuth
“He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we`re going to - we`re going to create an army and we`re going to have Mexico pay for our border patrol, our border police. Clearly, that`s not going to happen.” WantHappensWould BePayWallTrumpArmyPoliceSillyBordersMexicoBeing SillyBorder Patrol Author:John Yarmuth
“I don`t think this wall [Donald Trump wants to build], having the - there`s no way to force them to, but expecting the Mexicans to pay for it doesn`t make any sense either.” ThinkingWayWantForcePayWallTrumpExpecting Author:John Yarmuth
“Wall Street is the only factor in the U.S. economy, which really keeps Obama still in office. He couldn't have made it, otherwise.” MadeStillsEconomyStreetsWallOfficeFactorsMade It Author:Lyndon LaRouche
“I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.” ArtSometimesShowsDreamJobsOpportunityForeverPiecesWallDreams Come TrueTrue YouTake Your Time Author:El-P
“I would rather stare at the wall for half an hour than watch an episode of any of the 53,801 Australian soap operas now cluttering up UK TV.” HoursHalfWatchesTvsWallStaringOperaEpisodesSoapAustralianSoap Operas Author:Terry Pratchett
“There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.” MomentsFactsAbleFallBitsStageWallAnxietyThat MomentShynessBlockedOverthinkingPlaying Someone Author:Emma Stone
“Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.” LongIdeasHistoryWallSkinsCaughtTigersHunters Author:John F. Kennedy
“I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.” DifferentIssuesStreetsWallAmountCapacityInvestingPresidency Author:Barack Obama
“I'd turn off the internet for a month and make us actually talk to each other, and be responsible for your opinions and not be able to hide behind the anonymity of the cyber-wall to speak your mind. To actually have to face people and see their reactions and discuss it - actually discuss it. It won't happen. Unless the grid goes down.” PeopleMindHappensAbleFacesTurnsSpeakBehindsOpinionWallMonthsInternetResponsibleReactionsBeing ResponsibleAnonymityTurn OffCyberGridsSpeak Your Mind Author:John Larroquette
“I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.” PeopleThinkingCultureCenturyWallPopsDecadesTowersColleaguesPop CultureIvoryIvory Tower Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“My daughter is just as obsessed with playing in my makeup as everyone's daughter is. She paints our walls and herself and clothes and me. So I have to do makeup in 30 seconds or my whole house is covered in my makeup, because she'll just take it and run.” WholeRunningHouseWallClothesDaughterPaintObsessedMakeupMy DaughterCoveredSeconds Author:Blake Lively
“Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the big banks. She's tying the Republican Party to the financial crisis in 2008. It's all their fault. She's tying herself as with the low-income crowd - and the average, ordinary middle class American - as their champion, as their defender. They don't know that it's not the Republicans in bed with banks. They don't know that it's the banks that are practically paying for and underwriting the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton today.” PeopleKnowsBigsTodayPartyClassRichStreetsMiddleWallRepublicanBedLowsOrdinaryCrisisFaultsClintonDemocratFinancialAverageCrowdsIncomeChampionMiddle ClassGet AwayRepublican PartyRich PeopleDefendersFinancial CrisisLow Income Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Walls and barriers alone are insufficient to insure security.” SecurityWallBarriersInsufficient Author:Alan Bersin
“If you build a 50-foot wall, you'll soon be confronted with a 51-foot ladder.” IfsFeetWallLadders Author:Alan Bersin
“Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego to Brownsville is not necessary. And the costs would be prohibitive. And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.” PeopleIfsKnowsBigsWould BeMotherWallCostSouthFamiliarDesertBordersBarriersTexasBerlinStretchingMother NatureArizonaTerrainSan Diego Author:Alan Bersin
“I want to break up the Wall Street banks. Hillary Clinton doesn't. I want to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks an hour. She wants $12 an hour. I voted against the War in Iraq. She voted for the War in Iraq. I believe we should ban fracking. She does not. I believe we should have tax on carbon and deal aggressively with climate change. That is not her position.” WantShouldBelieveDoeWarI BelieveHoursDealsBreakStreetsPositionWallTaxesShould HaveRaisesClintonClimateClimate ChangeIraqMinimumCarbonBucksBansMinimum WageFracking Author:Bernie Sanders
“For Democrats to win, they're going to have to address the needs of working people. They're going to have to address the needs of the middle class. And that means standing up to Wall Street, standing up to the greed of corporate America. Even now and then, standing up to the media. And that means having a candidate who can excite working families, excite young people, bring them into the political process, create a large voter turnout.” PeopleNeedsMeanAmericaYoungPoliticalWinningProcessClassStreetsMiddleMediaWallStandingDemocratGreedCorporateCandidatesAddressesMiddle ClassVotersNow And ThenCorporate AmericaVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“I do have to say my daughter, Sunday, said to me [I was being] overprotective, so you must have been a fly on the wall.” Has BeensSaidWallDaughterSundayMy DaughterOverprotective Author:Nicole Kidman
“Protecting the sovereignty of the United States, putting a wall on the southern border, making sure that criminals are not part of our process. These are all things that 80 percent of Americans agree with, and these are all things that President Trump is doing.” StatesProcessPresidentUnitedUnited StatesWallTrumpPercentAll ThingsAgreeCriminalsBordersSouthernSovereignty Author:Reince Priebus
“You find [reverberations from 9/11 ] in them most unexpected places, like graffiti on a wall. Sometimes it's a faded picture; sometimes it's a newspaper tacked to a wall. Sometimes it's weird paraphernalia related to it, home constructed paraphernalia. It resonates through society and continues to resonate today.” SometimesHomeTodayWallNewspapersRelatedUnexpectedFadedGraffitiReverberationUnexpected Places Author:Peter van Agtmael
“The two reasons that Bernie Sanders gave her fits was the Iraq War and her association with Wall Street. Wall Street owns Hillary Clinton. Wall Street has bought Hillary Clinton and whatever policy considerations she can give them if she gets elected. They have bought her already. That's what all the speech income is really all about.” IfsGivingTwoWarReasonStreetsPolicyWallFitSpeechClintonIraqIncomeConsiderationAssociationIraq War Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's no question that ghosts exist. The big question for me is whether ghosts are simply electronic imprints left in the walls or the atmosphere of places, or whether they do actually represent something from the afterlife.” BigsLeftWallGhostAtmosphereAfterlifeBig Questions Author:Peter James
“We're full of electricity, and the walls and floor of a building contain carbon - the same makeup as a video tape - and I think we give off a huge amount of energy. Some people are able to see that and pick that up. I think almost every person I've met in my life has had some sort of experience that they can't explain, and those fascinate me.” PeopleThinkingGivingPersonsAbleEnergyBuildingHugeWallAmountMetsPicksVideoMakeupTapeElectricityCarbon Author:Peter James
“In the case of [Donald] Trump, he was able to tell people that elites live in gated communities, where they have walls around their home.” PeopleHomeAbleCommunityCasesWallTrumpElitesGated Communities Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“[Donald Trump] has nothing to show for it but fear in every way. To people who are sick, fear, to people who are immigrants, fear, to people who are concerned about the greed on Wall Street taking us back to where we were.” PeopleWayShowsStreetsWallTrumpConcernedSickGreedImmigrants Author:Nancy Pelosi
“What has the [Donald] Trump administration done from their inaugural address, where they talked about decay and carnage? They've done nothing except put Wall Street first, make America sick again, instill fear in our immigrant population in our country, and make sure that Russia maintains its grip, its grip on our foreign policy.” FirstsCountryDoneAmericaStreetsPolicyWallTrumpSickPopulationRussiaOur CountryAdministrationAddressesImmigrantsForeign PolicyDecayInstillInauguralInaugural AddressCarnage Author:Nancy Pelosi
“If I didn't have that deep grounding, it would be very easy for me to just be someone who is consumed with anger and hatred. And that would be Trump's great victory: to turn us into replicas of him, just on the other side of a wall screen. I refuse to let me or my family or my movement or my friends be turned into the opposite of Trump. I want to be the antidote for Trump.” IfsWantWould BeTurnsEasySidesMovementWallTrumpVictoryMy FriendsMy FamilyHatredOppositesLet MeRefuseScreensConsumedAntidoteGroundingGreat VictoryReplica Author:Van Jones
“The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.” TryingMindHappenedSeriousWallIraqBricksCourtroomBrick Wall Author:Vincent Bugliosi
“This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.” WarStrongSpaceWallProgramSpeciesChinaRussiaFactorsDriversMotivatedAggressiveVery StrongSpace ProgramGreat WallGreat Wall Of China Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.” PeopleWorldWayGivingEndsChanceWallExtraordinaryVery GoodHandleChanging The WorldThe End Of The DayPersonal LifeStatus QuoScrewsNavigateScrew UpsBasking Author:Viola Davis
“Music was just played all around me, and I couldn't run from it. My pops, he never learned to sing, but he'd have his little drink on the side, and he'd put on the best of his hits - gangster rap or oldies - and he'd sing all day on his mic plugged up to the wall set-up. It's a trip. I've just seen that my whole life, so I've always just had a love for music. By the time I was 13, I really just jumped in it. And it's something I took on to have as a hobby.” LittlesWholeRunningSidesWallDrinkPopsRapWhole LifeHobbiesGangstersMicsOldiesGangster Rap Author:Kendrick Lamar
“It's just the banks who are the latest target of the American socialist left. There is a war on the entirety of the private sector. It is the private sector that employs most of you, that services most of you, that creates the economic prosperity that our nation has enjoyed - and there is a war on that private sector, and it's being waged from the Oval Office, and its foot soldiers are on Wall Street and in other cities around the country.” WarCountryLeftNationsCitiesFeetEconomicStreetsWallOfficeSoldierProsperityEnjoyedTargetSocialistPrivate SectorEntiretyOvalEconomic Prosperity Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.” WantLittlesSecretStreetsWallFolksDirtyMain Street Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America and the Wall Street Banks that are destroying our economy.” KnowsArtAmericaFormEconomyStreetsWallOriginalsJazzGreedCorporateDestroyingCorporate AmericaOriginal Art Author:Bernie Sanders
“I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” PayWallMarkBordersSouthernMexicoGreat Wall Author:Donald Trump
“When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."” WorldChildrenSaidTwoWarWould BeBeautifulFallThreeFeltStreetsWallKingsInvolvedMarriedTwentiesRageI RealizedVietnamFalling ApartLutherGet InvolvedVietnam WarStockbrokersJohn Kennedy Author:Barbara Boxer
“[Steven] Lerner said that unions and community organizations are, for all intents and purposes, dead. The only way to achieve their goals, therefore - the redistribution of wealth and the return of '$17 trillion' stolen from the middle class by Wall Street - is to 'destabilize the country.” WaySaidCountryPurposeGoalCommunityWealthClassStreetsMiddleAchieveWallReturnOrganizationUnionsMiddle ClassStolenRedistribution Of Wealth Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Steven] Lerner's plan starts by attacking JP Morgan Chase with demonstrations on Wall Street, protests at the annual shareholder meeting, and then calls for a coordinated mortgage strike.” PlansStreetsWallMeetingsStrikesProtestAttackingDemonstrationMortgageAnnualsShareholders Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What I think is bugging this guy [Steven Lerner] is the belief that debt - forced debt upon middle-class people, students (i.e., student loans and so forth) - has made Wall Street bankers and financial people excessively, unfairly, out-of-proportionally rich.” PeopleThinkingMadeGuyBeliefClassRichStreetsMiddleStudentsWallFinancialDebtMiddle ClassThis GuyLoanBankersStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh