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.
ELIZABETH WARRENI get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
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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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Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.
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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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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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When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
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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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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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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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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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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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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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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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We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
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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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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 people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix 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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College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.
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We don’t win what we don’t fight for.
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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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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.
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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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There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.
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