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.
ELIZABETH WARRENThe game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America’s veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.
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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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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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Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
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I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
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