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.
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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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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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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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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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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