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I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
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When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
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People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.
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People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner.
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The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
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I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father.
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If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
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The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
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Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
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Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.
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I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
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Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.
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The core of my career is my teaching and my writing.
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President Obama believes in a level playing field.
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I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.
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We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
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We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.
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Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
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It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.
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I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
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Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.
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No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever.
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Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.