Lyndon LaRouche Quotes

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Bond traders now veto presidents.

Most politicians want to be seen as leading the parade. Thus they act to make a good thing better, and when markets slip, they find ways to limit the economic freedom of others.

If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street.

When we talk about power, we talk about Wall Street.

It is economic power that determines political power, and governments become the political functionaries of economic power.

I think everything depends on money.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

The economy controls the politicians far more than the politicians control the economy.

I don’t care a damn about stocks and bonds, but I don’t want to see them go down the first day I am President.

Gentlemen. There is no man nor group of men who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell.

Washington doesn't understand interest rates and Wall Street doesn't understand Washington.

Political reactions from Wall Street, whether they [are] right of wrong, could eventually influence the real economy.

Markets are self-regulating only because some brave investors are prepared to bet against the market trend.

It’s not the government’s job to bail out speculators.

No one single thing that we do will control inflation

There are two things that can disrupt the American economy. One is a war. The other is a meeting of The Federal Reserve Board.

A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

I don’t think that the Fed [Federal Reserve] ever can be or should be a prisoner of the markets.

There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

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.

One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.

You know policy is driven purely in self interest. The Federal Reserve Bank and the commercial banks and the Wall Street banks are not acting in the interests of the population at large, they're acting purely in their own self-interest, which is a shame because they're actions dictate the reality for 300 million Americans. But they don't see it that way, they see it only as a way to preserve their own self-interest.

I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'

I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.