I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
ELIZABETH WARRENWe need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she’s out there, she’s tough.
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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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 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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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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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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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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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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I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
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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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Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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That’s how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
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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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The 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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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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Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
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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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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 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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I love the work I do.
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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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