Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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Elizabeth Warren

Profession : Public Servant

Birth : June 22, 1949

Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

Elizabeth Warren

A good education is a foundation for a better future.

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I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

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Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.

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Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

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Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

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You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

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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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How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.

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You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.

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Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.

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I'm not going to talk about who I voted for.

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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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The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

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Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

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Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

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If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.

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I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

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Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.

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I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

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