Political Quotes

“The time for backroom deals is over. The time for the Washington-Wall Street collusion that has put Main Street at risk and risked the pension funds and hard-earned retirement accounts of so many Americans, it is time for this to end. How many loopholes is enough for the Republican Caucus in the Senate? We've had the entire Republican Senate Caucus join with the king of the Corn Husker Kickback to say, no, not enough loopholes, we need to water it down more, we need less accountability for Wall Street. That's not what the American people are saying. The American people are saying it's time to bring Main Street values of accountability, decency, and transparency to Washington and to Wall Street. People want the banks to bank and let those who want to use risky, speculative gambling schemes to keep their hands off of the hard-earned retirement of those who have worked their entire lives to be able to settle in their later years. People have worked hard to do this, and yet we now see from the e-mail streams and the memos from Wall Street that they were all too giddy to risk all that people had earned to make a few more bucks on these schemes. It's time to get back to an economic system built on building things and growing things that create jobs back on Main Street, living wage jobs that help people move from the working class up to the middle class at the core of the American dream.”