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I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'
Elizabeth Warren -
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
Elizabeth Warren
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Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama!
Elizabeth Warren -
America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.
Elizabeth Warren -
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
Elizabeth Warren -
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers.
Elizabeth Warren -
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
Elizabeth Warren -
It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.
Elizabeth Warren
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
Elizabeth Warren -
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Elizabeth Warren -
Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine.
Elizabeth Warren -
We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working.
Elizabeth Warren -
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
Elizabeth Warren -
You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
Elizabeth Warren
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The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
Elizabeth Warren -
I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.
Elizabeth Warren -
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
Elizabeth Warren -
I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
Elizabeth Warren -
My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.
Elizabeth Warren -
I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Warren
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What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
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We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
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I'm not a Washington person.
Elizabeth Warren -
I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.
Elizabeth Warren