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.
ELIZABETH WARRENWhen you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.
More Elizabeth Warren Quotes
-
-
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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 WARREN -
We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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 WARREN -
My mother said, if you don’t have the cash, don’t buy it. And on that, my mother was right.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
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.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
I love the work I do.
ELIZABETH WARREN -
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that’s already crushing our young people.
ELIZABETH WARREN