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" Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent. "
Elizabeth Warren
Think
Laws
Know
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" If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. "
Elizabeth Warren
Influence
Know
Money
" Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt. "
Elizabeth Warren
Risks
Work
Best
" Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out. "
Elizabeth Warren
Day
People
See
" 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! "
Elizabeth Warren
Together
Work
Powerful
" 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
" How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education. "
Elizabeth Warren
Build
Think
You
" In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.' "
Elizabeth Warren
Find
Law
Principal
" It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well. "
Elizabeth Warren
Care
Easy
Think
" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "
Elizabeth Warren
Someone
Right
Democrats
" The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it effectively. That meant consolidating the bloated patchwork of ineffective agencies and regulations so that a single agency could act as a voice for consumers. "
Elizabeth Warren
Voice
Information
Credit
" There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden. "
Elizabeth Warren
Rules
Hidden
Financial
" Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen. "
Elizabeth Warren
World
Like
Everyone
" Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. "
Elizabeth Warren
Financial
American
Great
" 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
Rules
Country
Economy
" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "
Elizabeth Warren
Class
Insecurity
Vulnerability
" Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. "
Elizabeth Warren
Long
Run
Credit
" Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. "
Elizabeth Warren
Corporations
Who
Said
" Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. "
Elizabeth Warren
Go
Interest Rates
Interest
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Name
Yourself
You
" Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. "
Elizabeth Warren
Cards
Long
Will
" I have to prove myself to everybody. "
Elizabeth Warren
Prove
Myself
Everybody
" I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means. "
Elizabeth Warren
Debt
Early
Home
" Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. "
Elizabeth Warren
Banking
Financial
He
" Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. "
Elizabeth Warren
Emergency
Rising
Economic
" 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
" There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. "
Elizabeth Warren
Debt
Pay
Cards
" I'm not a Washington person. "
Elizabeth Warren
Person
Washington
" Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. "
Elizabeth Warren
Reality
Dangerous
Abstract
" I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives. "
Elizabeth Warren
Important
Race
Want
" I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "
Elizabeth Warren
Think
Sure
People