We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
ELIZABETH WARRENI’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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.
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The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
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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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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’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that’s how I see it.
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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.
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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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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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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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Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.
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