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" All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion. "
Elizabeth Warren
Real
Life
Real Life
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" I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage. "
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" I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father. "
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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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" I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin. "
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" With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. "
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" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "
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" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "
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" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "
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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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" Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. "
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" In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it. "
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Education
Today
School
" I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. "
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Choice
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" There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. "
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People
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" Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. "
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Health
Even
Insurance
" When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. "
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Land
She
Rush
" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "
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Someone
Right
Democrats
" I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us. "
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America
Lost
Real
" Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. "
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Financial
American
Great
" I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. "
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Take
School
" If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine. "
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Understand
Product
Plan
" My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life. "
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Finding
Mother
Me
" No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever. "
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Name
Yourself
You
" 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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Us
Chance
Creative
" I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "
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Day
One Day
Know
" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "
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School
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" I'm not a Washington person. "
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Washington
" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "
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" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "
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" Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed. "
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Trouble
Family
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