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.
ELIZABETH WARRENI think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.
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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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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.
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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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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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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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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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