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I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed. -- Ben Bernanke
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. -- Donald T. Regan
I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded. -- Neil Cavuto
There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap. -- Alec Baldwin
There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs. -- Eric Ries
When it comes to America's economy, the truth is that Mitt Romney believes that the key to our country's economic future lies in the failed policies of the past, the same ones that put banks before people, Wall Street before Main Street, plunging us into recession and devastating the middle class. -- Charlie Gonzalez
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.' -- Eliot Spitzer
Main Street is almost alright. -- Robert Venturi
Wall Street is in trouble because Main Street is broke. -- Peter Schiff
All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. -- Robert Cormier
I'm not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. -- Ben Nelson
Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama. -- Nina Easton
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
Most Hispanics are concerned with the same issues other Americans are - the economy, jobs, education. Similar to Main Street America. -- Henry Bonilla
The issue is the Republican Party has been paying too much attention to Wall Street and not enough attention to Main Street. -- Dave Brat
Ultimately, there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation. -- Barack Obama
Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish. -- Dean Martin
It's time to bring tough medicine to Washington. No longer will policy be set by K Street, it will be dictated by Main Street. -- Rick Perry
The magic of Disneyland, walking through the tunnel underneath the train station to Main Street, it just transports you to other places and other times. -- John Lasseter
I suppose I could have called in the whole of the Army, but what was the use? All I had to do was call in Main Street itself. -- Herbert Hoover
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free. -- Merle Haggard
I've never been on Wall Street. And I care about Wall Street for one reason and one reason only because what happens on Wall Street matters to Main Street. -- Ben Bernanke
The 'Main Street' retailers ... see customers come to the store to locate items ... only to leave and order the items over the Internet just to escape the sales tax. -- John McCain
There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes. -- Haley Barbour
It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea. -- John Hench
We will reverse course on the heavy hand of regulation, discarding Dodd-Frank and any other regulations that advance a political agenda at the expense of jobs and investment on Main Street. -- Rick Perry
Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first. -- John F. Kerry
You go to Main Street, and Wal-Mart is coming to town and kicking out all the mom and pop stores. All the people that were in the mom and pop stores are now working for Wal-Mart. -- Dennis Quaid
Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America. -- Walt Disney
The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us. It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better America. -- Willie Nelson
Wall Street shouldn't be deregulated. I think Wall Street and Main Street need to play by the same set of rules. The middle-class can't carry the burden any longer, that is what happened in the last decade. They had to bail out Wall Street. -- Stephanie Cutter
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
I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever. -- Chris Tomlin
To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best - make money for American investors. -- Marsha Blackburn
Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country. -- Karen Mills
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich. -- Eugene Jarecki
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily. -- Ben Bernanke
Im not averse to helping Wall Street when it helps Main Street. -- Ben Nelson
She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street. -- Sinclair Lewis
I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street. -- James H. Douglas, Jr.
People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values. -- Mike Huckabee
Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA -- Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street. -- Linda Chavez
At this point, a spaceship could land on Main Street and Elvis could saunter out singing "Love Me Tender," and I wouldn't be surprised -- Michele Bardsley
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips. -- Alice Hoffman
I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring. -- Paul Weller
If we're going to be an effective, efficient economy, we need to have all part of that engine running well, and that includes Wall Street and Main Street. -- Hillary Clinton
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability. -- Mike Scully
Main Street investors, who cannot trade credit default swaps, should not be tempted to trade an instrument with the same risk profile simply because it has been given a different name. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America. -- Ronald Reagan
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily. -- Ben Bernanke
Am I disappointed in Barack Obama? Yes, I'm very disappointed in Barack Obama and I'm disappointed in the Democratic administration and in the two Democratic houses of Congress for two years that bailed out Wall Street when they should have bailed out Main Street. -- Jill Stein
If newsmen do not tell the truth as they see it because it might make waves, or if their bosses decide something should or should not be broadcast because of Washington or Main Street consequences, we have dishonored ourselves and we have lost the First Amendment by default. -- Richard S. Salant
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from Main Street, and Main Street has received too little in return. It is not necessary to centralize power in order to solve our problems. -- George McGovern
For a long time, they sat without speaking. The air outside was filled with the lilting sound of sparrows, the buzz of traffic on Main Street, and under that the faint lapping of waves on the lakeshore. Lou smiled. It wasn't the same, but it was better.And better, Lou thought, is a start. -- Danika Stone
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses. -- Grace Lee Boggs
The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees. -- Sherwood Anderson
Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it. -- Roy Stryker
My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. -- Andy Warhol
I think to close half of Magic Kingdom for the purpose of a White House invitation town hall meeting on a phony main street on behalf of a phony president just strikes me as weird. -- Newt Gingrich
I do all I can to maintain good health. I eat mostly plants, as Michael Pollan would say. I get a lot of exercise. I lead a purposeful daily life. I stay current with the dentist. I made the formative decision of where to live over thirty years ago when I settled in a 'main street' small town in upstate New York. -- James Howard Kunstler
Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. -- Hillary Clinton
In my opinion hard core gardeners, like eco-terrorists, some street gangs, and any American militia group itching for a confrontation with the FBI, have forgotten the main idea -- Lindley Karstens

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