Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.
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Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
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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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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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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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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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I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
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Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
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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 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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We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
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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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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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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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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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Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
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Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.
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Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
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A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.