Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.
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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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I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
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I'm not a Washington person.
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Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
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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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We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
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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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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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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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I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.
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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 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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Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.