My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
ELIZABETH WARRENI 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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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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I’m proud of my Native American heritage.
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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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The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.
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I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
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My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.
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Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
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Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.
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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 game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
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My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever.
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