Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.
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Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.
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Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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I'm not a Washington person.
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There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
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I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
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Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.
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Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
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I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.
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We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
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I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day.
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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.
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Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
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A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
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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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G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions.
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For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
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I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.