EMM News Explorer: Wall Street

Charles E. Grassley [ said]: It’s astonishing and extremely disappointing that the House would fulfill Wall Street’s wishes by killing this provision,

WashingtonPost 09-FEB-12

Carney [-told]: It would be a shame if House Republicans, led by the majority leader, at the urging of Wall Street interests and other inside-the-beltway forces, watered down the tough, but commonsense measures supported by Republicans and Democrats alike,

reuters 09-FEB-12

Grassley [-said]: It's astonishing and extremely disappointing that the House would fulfill Wall Street 's wishes by killing this provision,

usaToday 09-FEB-12

Carney [-added]: being weakened behind closed doors by House Republicans who seem to be caving to pressure from Wall Street lobbyists,

usaToday 08-FEB-12

Santorum [said:]: On health care, the environment, cap and trade and on the Wall Street bailouts, Mitt Romney has the same positions as Barack Obama, and in fact, would not be the best person to come up and fight for your voices for freedom in America.

euronews 08-FEB-12

Grassley [-said]: It's astonishing and extremely disappointing that the House would fulfill Wall Street's wishes by killing this provision,

AP 08-FEB-12

Burton [-said]: As has become evident in the past month, the only enthusiasm in the Republican Party is among oil company billionaires and investment bankers on Wall Street looking to defeat President Obama,

ABCnews 07-FEB-12

Jaafari [-also recommended that]: It's worth mentioning also what is happening now in Wall Street and the way the demonstrations are been suppressed by policemen, police dogs and beatings.

haaretz 07-FEB-12

Brown [-wrote]: Teachers, first responders, law enforcement, and other pensioners and retirees should not be penalized for wrongdoing by Wall Street,

bloomberg 03-FEB-12

Brown [-wrote]: Teachers, first responders, law enforcement , and other pensioners and retirees should not be penalized for wrongdoing by Wall Street ,

bloomberg 03-FEB-12

Sinha [-said]: If they come out and miss their first quarter, they destroy trust on Wall Street,

news 02-FEB-12

Gingrich [-said]: He can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money, most of it raised in Wall Street from the guys who got bailouts from the government,

reuters 31-JAN-12

Obama [said that:]: some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street in some cases some of the least ethical behavior on Wall Street wasn't illegal. That's exactly why we had to change the laws.

news 30-JAN-12

Gingrich [-said]: carpet-bomb me with millions and millions and millions of dollars of Wall Street money,

upi 29-JAN-12

Gingrich [-said]: There's no question he can raise more money than I can from Wall Street and he has big institutions pouring money into him,

npr 29-JAN-12

Romney [-told]: Remember the Republican establishment is just as much as an establishment as the Democratic establishment, and they are just as determined to stop us. ... This is a campaign for the very nature of the Republican Party and the very opportunity for a citizen conservatism to defeat the power of money and to prove that people matter more than Wall Street.

cnn 27-JAN-12

Santorum [-said]: All the people who have done that so far, at least in events I've been involved in, have been part of the Occupy Wall Street folks,

ibtimes 27-JAN-12

Obama [said that:]: some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street — in some cases some of the least ethical behavior on Wall Street — wasn't illegal. That's exactly why we had to change the laws.

AP 27-JAN-12

Santorum [-said]: All the people who have done that so far at least in events I've been involved in have been part of the Occupy Wall Street folks,

ibtimes 26-JAN-12

Biden [-said]: They're putting forward a political philosophy that is absolutely straight-forward... The way it's going to work is to not only keep the tax cuts for the wealthy but increase tax cuts for the wealthy, and the way to move forward is to deregulate Wall Street.

news 26-JAN-12

Obama [ said]: And I will not go back to the days when Wall Street was allowed to play by its own set of rules,

guardian 25-JAN-12

Brown [-said]: In many ways, Wall Street isn't just too big to fail, it's too big to jail,

latimes 24-JAN-12

Sherrod Brown [ said]: Wall Street again is trying to pass the buck. Instead of criminal prosecutions, we’re talking about something that’s not more than a slap on the wrist,

washtimes 23-JAN-12

Sherrod Brown [ said]: Wall Street again is trying to pass the buck. Instead of criminal prosecutions, we're talking about something that's not more than a slap on the wrist,

AP 23-JAN-12

Bachus [ said]: The rule’s impact on market liquidity, access to credit, the cost of capital and job creation will unnecessarily stifle the growth of businesses that operate far from Wall Street, and hamper the ability of asset managers, pension funds and insurance companies to grow their portfolios for millions of individual investors,

bloomberg 18-JAN-12

Johnson [-said]: Someone on Wall Street might go apoplectic when he heard he got $3 million and another guy got $3.5 million,

economictimes 17-JAN-12

Lauer [-asked]: Did you suggest that anyone who questions the policies and practices of Wall Street and financial institutions, anyone who has questions about the distribution of wealth and power in this country, is envious?

ibtimes 13-JAN-12

Perry [-said]: You got ask yourself when the last three chiefs of staff for this president came out of wall street, you don’t think there’s a little bit of inside dealing going on there, that their buddies on wall street are calling them up and saying hey, how bout let’s not be quite that tough on those of us on Wall Street, we’re just good old boys out here trying to make a buck,

ABCnews 10-JAN-12

Gingrich [ said]: I'm not nearly as enamored of a Wall Street model where you can flip companies, and go in and have leveraged buyouts,

voanews 08-JAN-12

Rick Santorum [-insisted]: Wall Street model where you can flip companies, you can go in and have leveraged buyouts, you can basically take out all the money, leaving behind the workers.

ABCnews 08-JAN-12

Axelrod [-said]: The battle is really over the long term because the Republicans have a fundamental theory that we can cut our way to prosperity - cut taxes for the wealthy, cut regulations, especially for Wall Street, and the economy will flourish,

arabtimes 02-JAN-12

Axelrod [-said]: The battle is really over the long term because the Republicans have a fundamental theory that we can cut our way to prosperity cut taxes for the wealthy, cut regulations, especially for Wall Street, and the economy will flourish,

news 01-JAN-12

Perry [ said]: You don’t have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and Obamacare individual mandate. You don’t have to resign yourself to voting for wasteful Washington spending culture of earmarks and of deficits and this ever rising debt that we’ve got,

ABCnews 27-DEC-11

Chris Weafer [ says]: given the more evident optimism and closing strength on Wall Street ahead of the Christmas break, and the uneventful protest on Saturday, Moscow's bourses should trade better at the start of the new week,

rt 26-DEC-11

Gingrich [-asked]: When you get ready to vote in 2 weeks ask yourself, do you really want to reward politics as usual, negativity as usual, attack as usual, consultants as usual, fundraising from Wall Street fundraising as usual,

msnbc 20-DEC-11

Perry [-told]: There have been people on Wall Street that have been betting against America, and then we bailed them out, and there’s nothing right about that,

ABCnews 20-DEC-11

Perry [-told]: The Wall Street bailout was the single greatest act of thievery in American history,

msnbc 19-DEC-11

Perry [-said]: and no one should have bailed out Wall Street,

newschannel5 19-DEC-11

Perry [-said]: Wall Street and Washington’s the problem. We’ve got to have somebody that will walk in there that doesn’t give one hoot about any old relationships. Somebody that cares more about Main Street than they did Wall street. Insiders are not going to bring real change. It’s going to take a serious outsider who will walk into Washington, D.C., and to really shake up that place and I will suggest to you that I’m that outsider that will do it,

ABCnews 19-DEC-11

Perry [-further described]: They take care of each other. They protect the moneyed interest and then they leave the tab to those of us in the middle class. They put Wall Street, K Street, which is where all the lobbyists live, ahead of Main Street. Washington’s wasteful spending’s wrong. It’s unjust, it’s got to stop and that’s the reason I offer myself as an outsider who will walk up there, who doesn’t have any connections with the folks on Wall Street or on K Street for that matter.

ABCnews 19-DEC-11

Perry [-told]: It’s unjust. It’s got to stop and that’s the reason I offer myself as an outsider who will walk up there, who doesn’t have any connections with the folks on Wall Street, or on K Street for that matter.

ABCnews 19-DEC-11

Perry [-said]: Wall Street bailout was the single greatest act of thievery in American history – and Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney were for it. That’s what insiders do. They take care of each other,

ABCnews 19-DEC-11

Perry [ says]: That is what’s wrong with this country, the idea that Washington politicians have been pushing through these frankly corrupt policies that allowed Wall Street financiers to get rich,

montrealgazette 18-DEC-11

Perry [-commented]: People are sick and tired of being ripped up by congressmen and senators who are in cahoots with Wall Street financiers, and that’s basically what we have here. ‘Fraudulent’ and ‘criminal’ are two words that I hope we hear often as we clean this mess up and people understand that Americans are not going to allow their public servants to rip them off anymore.

ABCnews 16-DEC-11

Perry [-said]: Let me tell you, changing one Washington insider for another Washington insider is not going to change a thing. Taking a Wall Streeter and sending them to Washington, D.C., is not going to change a thing,

latimes 15-DEC-11

Pfeiffer [-said]: This includes provisions that would undermine Wall Street reforms, enact extreme social and ideological riders, undercut environmental protections, and threaten the foreign policy prerogatives of the president,

upi 15-DEC-11

Paul [-said]: The special interests on Wall Street - they might have a lot of money but they don't have a lot of voters,

iol 15-DEC-11

Perry [ said]: Changing one Washington insider for another Washington insider isn't going to change a thing. Sending a Wall Streeter to Washington is not going to change a thing,

news 15-DEC-11

Perry [-said]: This campaign’s not about me. This campaign’s about millions of Americans who want to take our country back, want to take it back from Washington and Wall Street, get it back to Main Street,

ABCnews 15-DEC-11

Paul [-said]: The special interests on Wall Street -- they might have a lot of money but they don't have a lot of voters,

news 14-DEC-11

latimes 14-DEC-11

Obama [-said]: See, for too long, the rules weren't the same on Wall Street as they were on Main Street,

news 10-DEC-11

Huntsman [-said]: America suffers from a deficit of dollars and jobs. We also suffer from a deficit of trust -- trust in our institutions of power, from Washington to Wall Street,

usaToday 08-DEC-11

Bachmann [said:]: our options are diminishing by the day. The President will stand with Occupy Wall Street - but he won't stand with Israel. We have to accelerate covert operations and cyber operations in Iran. We must order the CIA director to do every effort necessary to stop the Iranian bomb. The Pentagon must prepare a war plan.

haaretz 08-DEC-11

Robert Menendez [ said]: Cordray and consumer protection are being blocked simply because Republicans want to protect Wall Street,

AP 08-DEC-11

Obama [-said]: Too often, we've seen Wall Street firms violating major anti-fraud laws because the penalties are too weak and there's no price for being a repeat offender,

scmp 07-DEC-11

Santorum [-said]: I wasn’t for the Wall Street bailouts and now against them. I wasn’t for cap and trade and believing in man-made global warming and now I’m against it,

ABCnews 06-DEC-11

Bachmann [-said]: This is a political Wall Street where candidates are going up and going down. I think we're perfectly situated to be exactly where we need to be on January 3rd,

CBSnews 06-DEC-11

Obama [-said]: Too often, we've seen Wall Street firms violating major anti-fraud laws because the penalties are too weak and there's no price for being a repeat offender. No more,

news 06-DEC-11

Michele Bachmann [ said]: I think the dynamic is changing all the time in this race. It is almost like Wall Street,

smh 05-DEC-11

Paul [ added]: We need to sort that out, but the people on Wall Street got the bail outs and you guys got stuck with the bills,

rt 22-NOV-11

Manuel [-told]: The message coming out of everything we have seen over the past year in the Arab Spring, people on the streets in Europe, the Occupy Wall Street movement and the overall failure of systems of the past, is that that model is broken. We need something that deals with the needs of people and the economy must serve the interests of the masses ... and at the moment the market doesn't provide for that,

mg 21-NOV-11

Putin [ said]: As far as I know, right know, police in New York are actively dispersing Occupy Wall Street demonstrators,

mnweekly 20-NOV-11

Wolfson [-said]: If they attempt to enter a building they're not allowed in, that's breaking the law. If they want to express their concerns about Wall Street, that's totally fine,

cnn 17-NOV-11

Michael Ratner [ said]: The government could have tried to negotiate with Occupy Wall Street in ways that would have satisfied issues around health and safety if there were any... There was nothing that couldn't have been remedied,

msnbc 17-NOV-11

Ratner [ said]: Occupying the center of Wall Street as in protest against the damage that these protesters believe those who work there have done to this country could not be a clearer example of expressive protest,

guardian 15-NOV-11

Michael Ratner [ said]: Occupying the centre of Wall Street, in protest against the damage some believe those who work there have done to this country, could not be a clearer example of expressive protest,

guardian 15-NOV-11

Blicksilver [-said]: Wall Street created the structured financial products but it was government policy (that was) encouraging buying houses,

dailytimesPK 14-NOV-11

Perry [-said]: It doesn't make any difference whether it's Wall Street or some corporate entity or some European country -- if you are too big to fail, you are too big,

news 10-NOV-11

Gingrich [ said]: What is amazing to me is the inability of much or our academic world, much of our news media and much of the people on Occupy Wall Street to have a clue about history,

rt 10-NOV-11

Alan Johnson [ said]: This year started with great promise for a banner year on Wall Street, but hopes for larger bonuses faded over the summer and continue to dim as we approach year end,

news 10-NOV-11

Sachs [-writes]: The Obama administration has been a government of continuity rather than change, as Wall Street, the lobbyists, and the military have remained at the center of American power and policy,

news 10-NOV-11

Smith [-said]: Occupy Wall Street participants have called upon police on occasions when people with predatory intentions have come into the park and engaged in illegal and destructive behavior, and have in fact turned over criminals to the NYPD,

thestar 04-NOV-11

Smith [-said]: Occupy Wall Street participants have called upon police on occasions when people with predatory intentions have come into the park and engaged in illegal and destructive behaviour, and have in fact turned over criminals to the NYPD,

mg 04-NOV-11

Perry [-said]: I happen to think Wall Street and Washington, D.C., have been in bed together way too long,

ABCnews 04-NOV-11

Perry [-said]: I happen to think Washington and Wall Street have been in bed together way too long,

CBSnews 04-NOV-11

Palin [-told]: They say `Wall Street fat cats got a bailout so now I want one too.' And the correct answer is no one is entitled to a bailout,

CBSnews 04-NOV-11

Palin [-told]: They say 'Wall Street fat cats got a bailout so now I want one too.' And the correct answer is no one is entitled to a bailout,

ABCnews 04-NOV-11

Khamenei [-said]: America tried to exert pressure on Iran, and rescue itself from the Wall Street movement and its problems, by the absurd terrorist scenario,

scmp 03-NOV-11

Bachmann [-told]: A vocal minority called Occupy Wall Street believes that the problem we face is capitalism or free markets. It’s not. The problem is government doing what both the constitution and decent morality prohibit, that is cronyism capitalism, or forcefully taking your money for the purpose of paying off a politician’s political friends,

ABCnews 03-NOV-11

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