Bernie Sanders Quotes

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

Money is the god of our time, and Rothschild is his prophet.

Wall Street has too much wealth and political power.

… a union of power in the same hands over industry, commerce and finance, with a resulting power over public affairs.

So, we have in America today, my friends, a condition by which about 10 men dominate the means of activity in at least 85 percent of the activities that you own. They either own directly everything or they have got some kind of mortgage on it, with a very small percentage to be excepted. They own the banks, they own the steel mills, they own the railroads, they own the bonds, they own the mortgages, they own the stores, and they have chained the country from one end to the other

Whosoever has money has power. It's not about a label. If you have money tomorrow, you will be powerful.

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.

Bankers play far too great a part in the conduct of industry.

Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

He who has his thumb on the purse has the power.

In a capitalist society all institutions are in danger of control by the counting room.

To control the American market is to own America.

The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they're the people that control this economy.

Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.

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.

The growth of financial capitalism made possible a centralization of world economic control and use of this power for the direct benefit of financiers and the indirect injury of all other economic groups.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.

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.

Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

Commercial concerns have expanded from family business to corporate wealth which is self-perpetuating and which enlightened statesmen and economists now dread as the most potent oligarchy yet produced.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.