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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.

Elizabeth Warren

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 WARREN

Department Education Government Profit Struggle Student
Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
ELIZABETH WARREN

People President Threat
Now 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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Build Children Factory Greatness Ideas Social Yourself
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Build Debt Economy Future Growth Job Opportunity Togetherness
This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.
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Country Dreams People Work
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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Financial Institution Large People Trick
I’m proud of my Native American heritage.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Identity Myself Proud
Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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Fight Herself Tough Women Empowerment
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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College Day Debt Education Help Life Student Time
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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Graduation Marriage Myself Table Teaching Wait
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Feeling Pain People Right System
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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Believe Death Dignity Fight Justice Man Police Poverty Reserve Young
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Avoid Hard Work Money Pay People Share Talk Tax
Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Important Protection Responsibility Terrorism
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Accountability Economy Financial Honesty Institution Rule Strong
My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Afraid Myself Parents Poor
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
It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Better Change Fight Game Win Yourself
If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Seat Table Trouble Yourself
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
We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Celebration Game Success
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
The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Game Money Power Work
I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Leadership Myself Need Thinking
I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Myself Negotiation Reason Time Willing
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
I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
ELIZABETH WARREN

Big Failure Myself

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 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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