Elizabeth Warren famous quotes

If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Teacher #Firefighter #Enemy

Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Crush #Moving #Home

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

#Jobs #Struggle #Government

Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#School #College #Broken

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Hard Work #Years #Class

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

#Crush #People #Reform

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 Warren

#Lying #Doors #Years

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Tables #Menus

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Regret #Heart #Space

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Islands #Nurse #People

Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Running #People #Risk

Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Good Luck #Guy #Bigs

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Fighting #Equal Pay #Years

Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Jobs #America #People

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Add #Needs #Sticks

You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Sleep #Home #Thinking

In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts, For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left - a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Fighting #Winning #Reality

Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Senior #Struggle #People

The President's policy proposal, known as 'chained CPI,' would re-calculate the cost of living for Social Security beneficiaries. That new number won't keep up with inflation on things like food and health care -- the basics that we need to live. In short, 'chained CPI' is just a fancy way to say 'cut benefits for seniors, the permanently disabled, and orphans.'
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Senior #Cutting #Numbers

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

#Country #Wall #Real

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Jobs #Wall #Oil

No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Running #Country #Jobs

I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Daughter #Independent #Cutting

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Mom #Dad #College

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Country #Believe #Kids

What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Country #Years #Doe

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Jobs #Stress #People

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

#Jobs #Decision #Way

I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Country #Class #Warfare

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Fighting #Winning #Games

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

#Ideas #Body #Bus

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Children #Teenager #Team

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

#Snakes #Long #Cards

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#People #Painful #Feels

When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Real

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Trials #Failing #Bigs

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

#People #Ladders #Pay

Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Class #Way #Anger And Fear

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#People #Tables #Financial

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Mean #Doctors #Years

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Jobs #Responsibility #Numbers

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Native American #Heritage #Proud

You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Worry #Band #Factories

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born,
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Native American #Stories #Born

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#School #Waiting #Tables

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

#Kids #Ideas #Looks

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Running #President #Clinton

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Mom #Heart #Men

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Hurt #Two #Agreement

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Keys #Wealth #Enough

Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#People #Guy #Corporations

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Real #Fighting #Creative

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Thinking #Usual #Dollars

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Games #Money And Power

President Obama believes in a level playing field.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Believe #President #Level Playing Field

Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Country #Jobs #Fighting

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Years #Safe #Bills

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Nsa #Community #Ordinary

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense...
-- Elizabeth Warren

#School #Israel #Self

Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#People #Corporations #Financial

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Coffee #Years #Twenties

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

#Jobs #Opportunity #Roots

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.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Fire #Police #Safe

If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Years #Safety #Financial

I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#School #Sunday #Church

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.
-- Elizabeth Warren

#Money #Years #Numbers