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Elizabeth Warren

Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Afford Aware Bad Economy Myself
Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Anger Popular Rage
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Born Identity Myself Story
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Control Equality Fight Government Issues Past Time
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Graduation Marriage Myself Table Teaching Wait
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.
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Accountability Economy Financial Honesty Institution Rule Strong
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Fear Goal Learning Myself Poor Response Scare Work
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Heart Regret Space Yourself
It’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

Easy Focus Try Yourself
Goals 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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Build Debt Goal Move Pay Save Start Time Work
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Daughter Ideology Live Myself Woman
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 WARREN

Economics Hard Work People Play Poor Rule
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Believe Death Dignity Fight Justice Man Police Poverty Reserve Young
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Comparison Complication Money Planning Trip
I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Bad Body Ideas Myself Willing
My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Financial Mom Price Right Yourself

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