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.
ELIZABETH WARRENMy 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.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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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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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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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’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.
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Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
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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 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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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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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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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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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
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