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.
ELIZABETH WARRENThe need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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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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There 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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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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If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
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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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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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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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I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
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Once you’ve gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.
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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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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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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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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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