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" And 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
Grow
Future
Together
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" For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival. "
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" Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families. "
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" Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. "
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" We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it. "
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Need
" Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy. "
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" 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. "
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Nobody
Rich
Class
" Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those. "
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" If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me. "
Elizabeth Warren
Vote
Me
Nobody
" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "
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Core
Career
Teaching
" Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. "
Elizabeth Warren
Believe
Say
Powerful
" 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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See
Sense
Way
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Trouble
Family
Financial
" It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Job
Looking
Money
" 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
" 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
Good
Roads
Rest
" Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures. "
Elizabeth Warren
Influence
Want
Street
" People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people. "
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Credit
Experience
People
" I think Hillary Clinton is terrific. "
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Clinton
Think
Terrific
" 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
" I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. "
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Front
Bus
Stop
" The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families. "
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Investment
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" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "
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Social
Conversation
Stop
" Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. "
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Health
Even
Insurance
" I'm not running for president. "
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Running
President
" 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. "
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Sick
Dance
Die
" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "
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Me
School
High School
" 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
" If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States! "
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