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 WARRENIt’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.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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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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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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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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Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.
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We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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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.
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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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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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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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If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
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I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
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