Famous quotes containing the words wall street, occupy, wall and/or street:
“On Wall Street he and a few others—how many?—three hundred, four hundred, five hundred?—had become precisely that ... Masters of the Universe.”
—Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)
“We are a conquering race. We must obey our blood and occupy new markets and if necessary new lands.”
—Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927)
“When a wall is collapsing, everybody gives it a push.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)