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 WARRENWhen conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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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 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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I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
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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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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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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
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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.
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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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