Occupy Movement Quotes

• 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.

  Nigel Farage

  Enterprise, Has Beens, Suspects

  "Occupy movement: critics have their say" by Nigel Farage, James Barty, Dan Hodges, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2011.

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• 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

  Thinking, Failing, Should

  "Alan Moore attacks Frank Miller in comic book war of words" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. Decemebr 6, 2011.

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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.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Wall, Democracy, Example

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

  Elizabeth Warren

  Country, Rich, Class Warfare

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.215, Metropolitan Books

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• Occupy Wall Street is a real movement.

  Russ Feingold

  Wall, Real, Streets

  "Russ Feingold: A Senator Without Constituents". Interview with Death Race, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2012.

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• Instead of receiving the help that she had hoped for, Mr. Cain instead decided to provide her with his idea of a stimulus package.

  Gloria Allred

  Ideas, Important, Receiving

  "Blonde Bombshell from Chicago Accuses Cain". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 7, 2011.

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• To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Crazy, Believe, Political

  Jon Huntsman @JonHuntsman, twitter.com. August 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  David Harvey

  Wall, Political, Collaboration

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• I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Winning, Blood

  "Top 25 Charlie Sheen quotes from his first week of explaining how awesome Charlie Sheen is" by Tony Pierce, Los Angeles Times, March 01, 2011.

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• My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Important, Friendly

  "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.

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• 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?

  Herman Cain

  Jobs, President, Election

  "Exclusive: Herman Cain Feeling 'Like Moses' and Ready for Media 'Gotcha' Questions". "The Brody File Show", October 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Fire, Police, Safe

  "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

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• 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.

  David Harvey

  Wall, Differences, Political

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• 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.

  John Garamendi

  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.

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• 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.

  John Lydon

  Wall, Leader, Political

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• 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.

  Simon Baker

  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.

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• 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.

  Eric Alterman

  Wall, Anger, Inspiration

  "Think Again: The Era of the ‘One Percent’" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2011.

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• 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?

  Artur Davis

  Jobs, Children, Wall

  Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• 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.

  Robert Greenwald

  Play, Attention, Percent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Oren Moverman

  People, Police, Ironic

  "Rampart Director, Oren Moverman Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, Ecosystems, Surveillance State

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Two, Media

  "Noam Chomsky on America's Economic Suicide". Interview with Laura Flanders / GRITtv, www.alternet.org. May 4, 2012.

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Space, People, Community

  "Talking With Chomsky". Interview with Laura Flanders, www.counterpunch.org. April 30, 2012.

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• 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.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, America, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've been saying the Occupy Movement has got the ball rolling, and now we need to take the fight to the great indoors!

  Ani DiFranco

  Fighting, Rolling, Needs

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