Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
ELIZABETH WARRENWe’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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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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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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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 powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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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.
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Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.
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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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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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If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.
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Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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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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There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.
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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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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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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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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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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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Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.
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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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