The 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 WARRENMy mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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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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Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that’s how I see it.
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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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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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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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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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I 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.
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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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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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It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.
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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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