“We call for cancelling student debt, for bailing out young people like Wall Street was bailed out to the tune of $16 trillion.” PeopleYoungStreetsStudentsWallDebtTunesBailing Out Author:Jill Stein
“Remember we had two Democratic houses of Congress along with the [Barack] Obama administration that laid out those policies before they lost Congress because people were very disappointed in what the Obama administration did - bailing out Wall Street instead of bailing out Main Street. So as someone who follows the climate very closely, there's no question that "all of the above" has been an absolute disaster.” PeopleHas BeensTwoRememberHouseLostStreetsPolicyWallAbsolutesDemocraticClimateCongressDisasterAdministrationBarackDisappointedMain StreetBailing Out Author:Jill Stein
“When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.” PeopleWellsMadeInterestPaySawsStreetsNew YorkWallCallingEssentialsCrisisFinancialFinanceSenatorsCeoClosingMortgageLoopholesPrincipledFinancial SystemMain StreetMortgage Crisis Author:Hillary Clinton
“Oh, look at this. NBC/Wall Street Journal: "Thirty-eight percent of the American people say [Donald] Trump's comments about women disqualify him from being president."” PeopleLooksPresidentStreetsWallTrumpPercentEightThirtyCommentJournalNbcWall Street JournalThirty Eight Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The disconnect I was experiencing was that people hated Wall Street, but they loved tech.” PeopleStreetsWallHated Author:Cathy O'Neil
“There's one other element I just want to be sure to mention here: that is that there are 43 million young people who are locked into predatory student loan debt for whom there is no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy that we have: this predatory Wall Street driven financialized low-wage service industry economy.” PeopleWayWantYoungGivenMillionsEconomyStreetsStudentsWallIndustryElementsLowsDebtDrivenLockedLoanPredatoryStudent LoanService Industry Author:Jill Stein
“The jobs that have come back have been extremely insecure low-wage benefit poor temporary jobs. Young people are screwed. They don't have a way to pay off their debt. And when they discover that they could come out and vote Green to cancel that debt, that I am the one candidate who will bail out the students like we bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, then it becomes an irresistible motivation to actually come out and vote Green.” PeopleWayHas BeensJobsYoungMotivationPoorPayStreetsStudentsWallBenefitsLowsVoteGreenDebtCandidatesTemporaryInsecureIrresistibleCrooksBail Author:Jill Stein
“We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.” PeopleWarPartyStreetsWorstWallRepublicanDemocraticRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:Ralph Nader
“The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.” PeopleHas BeensBlackWhiteCommonFateStreetsWallWorkersGreedCeoMotorGeneral MotorsThievery Author:Bell Hooks
“I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.” PeopleFeelsBigsWallTrumpProveStartingStoppingProve ItWalls Up Author:Ruth Wilson
“I've been inspired by people's work, but I never grew up with posters on my bedroom wall or obsessed with one person.” PeoplePersonsWallGrewGrew UpInspiredObsessedBedroomPostersBedroom Wall Author:FKA twigs
“You cannot be a party which takes money from Wall Street, which is not strong on the pharmaceutical industry, which is ripping us off every day, which is not strong on health care in taking on the insurance companies, which has not shown a desire to stand up and fight the economic establishment, and then tell working families that you are on their side. People see through that.” PeopleCareDesireFightingStrongSidesPartyCompanyEconomicStreetsWallIndustryHealth CareEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalNot StrongPharmaceutical Industry Author:Bernie Sanders
“The campaign is over. The people have spoken. And this man [Donald Trump] busted through a blue wall that nobody expected. He won states like Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania, which should have been Hillary Clinton's the whole time. And they were his because of the message, because of the way he's a master communicator and a master connecter.” PeopleMenWayShouldHas BeensStatesWholeMastersWallTrumpMessagesShould HaveBlueClintonExpectedCampaignsShould Have BeenMichiganPennsylvaniaWisconsinCommunicatorsBusted Author:Kellyanne Conway
“In college, all my friends were graffiti writers, but I never wrote graffiti. I wanted to participate and do something cool on the street, so I'd make these portraits of people. I'd isolate them on a white wall, make a silkscreen of it, and do these portraits in bathrooms and all around. That's how I started the Polaroids.” PeopleWantedWhiteStreetsCollegeWallMy FriendsPortraitsBathroomGraffitiPolaroidsWhite Walls Author:Ryan McGinley
“The question is how does Hilary Clinton fit in this broader network? She's a centralising cog. You've got a lot of different gears in operation from the big banks like Goldman Sachs and major elements of Wall Street, and Intelligence and people in the State Department and the Saudis.” PeopleDoeDifferentStatesBigsStreetsWallFitElementsMajorsClintonOperationsDepartmentGearsSaudisCogsGoldman SachsHilary Clinton Author:Julian Assange
“Hillary Clinton did try to reach out to the Sanders voters with policy concessions, but Sanders voters, especially his most activist core, are process people. They're not policy wonks. They're people who want big money out of politics. They're people who want fairness from the DNC chair. They're people who want every vote to count. They're the people who don't like Wall Street money. Right? They're primarily about the process of politics and whether or not it's fair and whether or not big-money elites are rigging things in your favor.” PeopleWantTryingBigsProcessStreetsPolicyWallFairsVoteClintonFavorsCoreChairsActivistVotersReach OutElitesFairnessConcessions Author:Van Jones
“If you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it's all the fault of Wall Street, you can't sit idly by and do nothing, but what you do is really important.” PeopleIfsImportantJobsStreetsWallMembersLosingPressesFaultsCongress Author:Hillary Clinton
“If you're a realist, you know that people have different roles to play in politics, economics, and this is an important role, but I do think that there has to be an understanding of how what happens here on Wall Street has such broad consequences not just for the domestic but the global economy, so more thought has to be given to the process and transactions and regulations so that we don't kill or maim what works, but we concentrate on the most effective way of moving forward with the brainpower and the financial power that exists here.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantDifferentPlayHappensMovingGivenProcessUnderstandingRolesEconomyStreetsWallConsequenceEconomicsFinancialMoving ForwardBroadsRegulationRealistTransactionsGlobal Economy Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingJobsAmericaSimpleWallComfortableMessagesDefeatCome UpCompellingIsis Author:Bruce Springsteen
“[Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world.” PeopleWorldCountryStatesLawValuesFallUnitedUnited StatesDemocracyShareWallCommitmentEuropeDignityEndureAround The WorldRootedRemindersBerlinRule Of LawBerlin Wall Author:Barack Obama
“I'm calling upon president-elect [Donald] Trump to not just settle for a wall.Let's build a fence, then a wall, then a fence, so we create two no man's lands, one on either side of the wall. That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse.” PeopleMenWayTwoSidesPresidentLandWallTrumpCallingPicksExcuseSettlingFence Author:Steve King
“When you say a wall, you mean a wall. You want to build a fence, you say fence. You don't use it as a euphemism for a virtual, say surveillance from hot air balloons that are floating over the border which some people have advocated.” PeopleWantMeanUseAirWallHotBordersFenceFloatingSurveillanceBalloonsEuphemismHot AirAir BalloonsHot Air Balloons Author:Steve King
“That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices.” PeopleWayStatesSidesUnitedUnited StatesWallReturnPicksExcuseBordersDevicesOfficersBoth SidesVibrationsSurveillanceSimplifyMushroomsBorder Patrol Author:Steve King
“Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.” PeopleYearsSaidSchoolAmericaNamesCenturyWallSplitsPublic SchoolFranklinCottonOverlooked18th CenturyAuditoriumsSandra Day O ConnorAlma MaterWaldo EmersonRalph Waldo Author:Nat Hentoff
“Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.” PeopleKnowsNeedsImportantStatesRememberEnergyCitiesIssuesWallTrumpPromiseTaxesIndependenceTradeCourtIslamProfitFocusedSupremeRadicalCorporateBordersSupreme CourtRefugeeObamacareDrainsStay FocusedFree TradeSwampsImportant IssuesInner CityVetsRadical IslamEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“You start with a generic body, but I think the first wall you hit with portraiture is comprised of history and storytelling and the nature of characters - whether they are historical or coming from literature or documentation. Those are the references we have to people, besides your family, and the intimacy of portraiture is in the specifics of individuals. For me, it came out of doing things about animals.” PeopleThinkingFirstsCharacterBodyLiteratureIndividualAnimalWallHistoricalStorytellingIntimacyOur FamilyGenericPortraitureDocumentationSpecifics Author:Kiki Smith
“All those people who went out [to Occupy Wall Street] missed work, didn't get paid. Those were individuals who were already feeling the effects of inequality, so they didn't have a lot to lose. And then the individuals who were louder, more disruptive and, in many ways, more effective at drawing attention to their concerns were immediately castigated by authorities. They were cordoned off, pepper-sprayed, thrown in jail.” PeopleWayFeelingsIndividualLosesAttentionStreetsEffectsWallAuthorityConcernPaidDrawingInequalityThrownJailPeppersDisruptiveOccupy Wall StreetDrawing Attention Author:Edward Snowden
“As inequality grows, the basic bonds of social fraternity are fraying - as we discussed in regard to Occupy Wall Street. As tensions increase, people will become more willing to engage in protest. But that moment is not now.” PeopleMomentsSocialGrowsStreetsWillingWallIncreaseRegardInequalityTensionProtestThat MomentFraternityOccupy Wall Street Author:Edward Snowden
“I could vanish the silk better than Ben Vereen - that was for sure. So I think maybe they said, "Okay, maybe he has something to offer." Years pass and I get a bit of a career, and Ben Vereen ends up hosting one of my specials where I walked through the Great Wall of China. Things came full circle in kind of an ironic way, when you have that honor of people that have influenced you so much host your show. It's a huge experience in your life.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsKindSaidEndsShowsBitsCareersHugeWallHonorOffersOkayChinaCirclesIronicHostThey SaidSilkFull CircleGreat WallGreat Wall Of China Author:David Copperfield
“If Martin Luther King looked at the Obama administration and saw an intimate connection with Wall Street, he'd be very critical. If he saw drones being dropped on innocent people, he'd be very critical. If he saw rights and liberties violated by secret policies of the government, of the kind we've seen by the National Security Agency, he'd be very critical.” PeopleIfsKindGovernmentSecretLibertySawsRightsStreetsSecurityPolicyWallKingsConnectionsCriticalInnocentAdministrationIntimateAgencyNational SecurityLutherDrones Author:Cornel West
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“In America, we will build a great wall along the southern border. And Mexico will pay for the wall. One hundred percent. They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for it. And they're great people and great leaders but they're going to pay for the wall. On day one, we will begin working on intangible, physical, tall, power, beautiful southern border wall.” PeopleKnowsAmericaBeautifulPayLeaderWallPercentHundredBordersTallSouthernMexicoGreat LeaderGreat PeopleIntangibleGreat Wall Author:Donald Trump
“America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.” PeopleWantPersonsRunningAmericaYoungStrongPowerfulMillionsStreetsWallGunSafetyEnvironmentalCorporationsVotingMost PowerfulGun ControlWant UClicksLobbyists Author:Patti Smith
“We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need to be put together. Otherwise people might not read the signs.” PeopleNeedsTwoMightTogetherStreetsWallOughtIraqAfghanistanPalestineWise PeopleOccupy Wall Street Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think people need to see on both sides. Seeing how the people in the Palestinian Territories can't move around - it's a maze now, with the wall, the road blocks and everything else. It takes you hours to get from one person's house to your job or to a friend or even to the hospital if someone's hurt. Then you go into Israel and see in Tel Aviv, where they have 12-18 bomb threats a day, which are real. It completely disrupts their life. Or Sderot where bombs are falling daily from the sky fired by Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsPersonsRealJobsMovingFallHouseSidesHoursHurtSeeingSkyWallThreatIsraelBlockBombsHospitalsTerritoryPalestinianBoth SidesGazaMazesHamasGaza Strip Author:Morgan Spurlock
“Occupy was not a movement, it was a tactic. You can't sit forever in a park near Wall Street. You can't do it for more than a few months. It was a tactic I had not predicted. If people asked me, I would have said "don't do it." But it was a great success, an enormous success, with a big impact on people's thinking, on people's actions.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidBigsActionForeverStreetsMovementWallMonthsImpactEnormousParksTacticsGreat SuccessBig Impact Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am always a little skeptical on the water thing because I have been hearing that for 30 years, but one year it's going to be true. With the rising populations, Yemen could be the first country in the world, or Sana'a the first major city in the world, to run out of water, that's from Yemeni hydrological engineers and the United Nations. Sooner or later, all of these people, from 7 to 9 billion, all of them want to live like America, will be consuming so much more water that some of the societies will hit a wall without more sustainable environmental practices.” PeopleWorldWantYearsFirstsLittlesHas BeensCountryRunningAmericaNationsWaterUnitedCitiesPracticeWallMajorsEnvironmentalPopulationHearingBillionsBeing TrueRisingEngineersSooner Or LaterUnited NationsSkepticalConsumingCities In The WorldYemenSana Author:Thomas Friedman