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.
ELIZABETH WARRENIt’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.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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That’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
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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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We’re going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.
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I 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.
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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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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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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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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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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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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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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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It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.
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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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