Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
ELIZABETH WARRENIt 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.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
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Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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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The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.
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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.
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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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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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We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
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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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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 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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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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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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