Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
ELIZABETH WARRENPundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
ELIZABETH WARRENBalancing your money is the key to having enough.
ELIZABETH WARRENIt’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
ELIZABETH WARRENThe people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it’s not the poorest. It’s not the people at the economic fringes. It’s people who worked hard and played by the rules.
ELIZABETH WARRENWe’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.
ELIZABETH WARRENI don’t want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.
ELIZABETH WARRENI’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
ELIZABETH WARRENThat’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.
ELIZABETH WARRENMy 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 get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
ELIZABETH WARRENIf you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
ELIZABETH WARRENPeople feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
ELIZABETH WARRENI 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 game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
ELIZABETH WARRENThe credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN