According to the president, the protests and the civil disobedience reflected a “broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.”11 Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi explained, “I support the message to the establishment, whether it’s Wall Street or the political establishment and the rest, that change has to happen.”12 Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the Democratic National Committee, added, “We understand their [Occupy Wall Street’s] frustration, we applaud their activism.”13
