When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.
ELIZABETH WARRENPart 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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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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If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.
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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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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 powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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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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The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.
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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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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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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
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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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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.
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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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I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial’.
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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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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
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It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.
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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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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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We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.
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