Washington (CNN) Martin O'Malley says Wall Street would accept either Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush as president -- but wouldn't be happy if the former Maryland governor won.

A day after the former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor officially launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination with tough anti-Wall Street rhetoric, he lumped both Clinton and Bush together in an interview Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"What we need new leadership to accomplish is to actually rein in excesses on Wall Street," he said, making reference to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

"And when you have somebody that's the CEO of one of the biggest repeat-offending investment banks in the country telling his employees that he'd be fine with either Bush or Clinton, that should tell all of us something," O'Malley said.

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