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.
ELIZABETH WARRENMe, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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My parents and I were all afraid of being poor – really poor.
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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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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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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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We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.
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Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret 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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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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Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
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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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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 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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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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