The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
ELIZABETH WARRENThere 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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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 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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When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.
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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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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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My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
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People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.
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We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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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 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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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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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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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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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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Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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