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 WARRENGoals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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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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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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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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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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Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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 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.
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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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The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
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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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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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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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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 powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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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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Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.
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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 you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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