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 WARRENOnce 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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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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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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Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
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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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We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.
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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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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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Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.
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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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Getting straight with your money is as complicated as a trip to the grocery store: You need a comparison shop, add and subtract, stick with a plan, and ask questions- nothing more.
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It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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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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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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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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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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