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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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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Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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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 not a Washington person.
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Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt.
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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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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
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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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Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
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I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.
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If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
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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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The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.
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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 had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
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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.
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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 want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.
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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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We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.