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 WARRENMe, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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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Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
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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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The 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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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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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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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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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.
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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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Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
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College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.
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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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I love the work I do.
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