I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
ELIZABETH WARRENThe 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.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
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It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.
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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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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This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.
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It’s so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.
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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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I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
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Nobody’s safe. Health insurance? That didn’t protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
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There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.
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There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn’t know how to throw a punch.
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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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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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Once you’ve gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.
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People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
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College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.
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Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.
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The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
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If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.
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