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" Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off. "
Elizabeth Warren
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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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" 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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" Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. "
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" Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. "
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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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" Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people. "
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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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" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "
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" 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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" When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake. "
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You
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" It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. "
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" G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions. "
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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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Think
Smart
" I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off. "
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Off
" 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. "
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" The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall. "
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Who
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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. "
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" Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. "
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