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.
ELIZABETH WARRENMy parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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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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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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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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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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.
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Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.
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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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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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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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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We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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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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