Bernie Sanders Quotes

Wall Street is greedy, reckless and they operate illegally. That's fine. But what do you do?

I think that the S.E.C. has been pretty feckless when it comes to reigning in reckless behavior on Wall Street.

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

While short sellers probably will never be popular on Wall Street, they often are the ones wearing the white hats when it comes to looking for and identifying the bad guys!

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

I'm not anti-Wall Street - I'm anti-distortions to free markets.

We did not investigate Wall Street because we were troubled by large institutions making a lot of money; we took action to stop a blatant fraud that was ripping of small investors.

The big-ego temper tantrums of Wall Street's titans must be a concern for everyone on Wall Street. Bad behavior and manipulation of the markets must be called out by those in the industry concerned for its future.

I think what's happened is that the general public has become much more aware of the destructive power of Wall Street.

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

I'm not going to let Wall Street get away with murder. Wall Street has caused tremendous problems for us.

Not one Wall Street executive has been charged with crimes since the 2008 financial crash.

First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy.

The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.

Wall Street, with its army of brokers, analysts, and advisers funneling trillions of dollars into mutual funds, hedge funds, and private equity funds, is an elaborate fraud.

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street.

We can't expect Wall Street to police itself - that's why we have a federal government.

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for 'Barron's' magazine and I found a lot to write about.