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 WARRENNow 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.
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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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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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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Once you’ve gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.
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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.
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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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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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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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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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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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Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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