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.
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.
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Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
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Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that’s how I see it.
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Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.
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The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.
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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.
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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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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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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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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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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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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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