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  • The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  • Anarchism means all sort of things to different people but the traditional anarchists' movements assumed that there'd be a highly organized society, just one organized from below with direct participation and so on. Actually, one piece of the media confusion has a basis because there really are two different strands in the occupy movement, both important, but different.

    Mean   Two   Media  
    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

    "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.
  • Regulate the banks, get money out of elections; raise the minimum wage, environmental issues. They're all very important and the Occupy movement made a difference. It shifted not only the discourse but to some extent, action on these issues.

    "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.
  • The jobs crisis has reached a boiling point, which is why we see Occupy Wall Street protestors crying out for an America that lets all of us reach for the American Dream again - a dream that says if you work hard and play by the rules, you can have a good life and retire with dignity.

    Dream   Jobs   Good Life  
    "House Republicans Continue to Block Commonsense Make It In America Policies" by Rep. John Garamendi, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2011.
  • If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

  • We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.

    Source: www.pqmonthly.com
  • I think this Occupy Wall Street thing is great. I think that is a good thing and that people need to stand up, voice their opinions, and be heard.

    Wall   Thinking   Voice  
    "Simon Baker Talks Margin Call, Occupy Wall Street, The Mentalist, and His Thoughts on Doctor Strange". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 20, 2011.
  • Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

    "Blonde Bombshell from Chicago Accuses Cain". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 7, 2011.
  • My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

    "Networks Embrace Buffett's Call for Higher Taxes on 'Mega-Rich,' ABC Salivates Over Spending It". Article by Brent Baker, www.mrc.org. August 16, 2011.
  • The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

  • When they ask me who's the president of Ubeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan I'm going to say, you know, I don't know. Do you know? And then I'm going to say how's that going to create one job?

    "Exclusive: Herman Cain Feeling 'Like Moses' and Ready for Media 'Gotcha' Questions". "The Brody File Show", October 8, 2011.
  • You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

    "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.
  • And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.

    People   Police   Ironic  
    "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Today, practically every country outside the West is undergoing an intellectual, political, and cultural churning, from China to Bolivia, Egypt to Indonesia, but we haven't really had, after the 1960s, a major oppositional culture in Western Europe and America. The Occupy movement was so startling and welcome partly because it was the first such eruption of mass protests in decades.

    Country   America   Egypt  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • I have a lot of sympathy with the ideas and frustration of the Occupy movement. I absolutely agree with the sense that Wall Street has brought an economic calamity to the middle class and that no one has been held accountable.

  • Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.

    "Think Again: The Era of the ‘One Percent’" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.
  • Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

    "Russ Feingold: A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Death Race, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.
  • In America, the poor have been invisibilised, because obviously this model of success that has been held out to the world must not show the poor, it must not show the condition of black people. It can only the successful ones, basketball players, musicians, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell. But I think the time will come when the Occupy movement will have to somehow formulate something more than just anger.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

    Jobs   Children   Wall  
    Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.
  • The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute.

    Wall   Leader   Political  
    "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.
  • I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.

    "Alan Moore attacks Frank Miller in comic book war of words" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 6, 2011.
  • Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

  • The 'Occupy' movement has no real solutions, except more government, more spending, more regulation, more bureaucracy, more unsustainable lethargic pseudo-university with no return on investment, more more more of what got us into this hole.

  • There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.

    Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books
  • To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

    Jon Huntsman @JonHuntsman, twitter.com. August 18, 2011.
  • The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

    Party   Tea   Principles  
  • The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

    "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.
  • I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

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