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.
ELIZABETH WARRENI want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.
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Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.
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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
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I’m proud of my Native American heritage.
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Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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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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There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color…We must fight back.
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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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Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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