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" Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors? "
Elizabeth Warren
Behind
Because
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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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Today
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" 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. "
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" People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. "
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" Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. "
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" 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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" 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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" If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget. "
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" I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means. "
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Early
Home
" I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. "
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Become
Really
Concerned
" 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. "
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God
Forward
Great
" People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner. "
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People
Weather
Face
" I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts. "
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Heart
Will
People
" 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. "
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Influence
Want
Street
" We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. "
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Ending
Big
Oil
" Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. "
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Long
Run
Credit
" Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen. "
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World
Like
Everyone
" When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. "
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Land
She
Rush
" 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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American
People
Oil
" When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there! "
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Street
New
Done
" Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products. "
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Meet
Struggle
Need
" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "
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Class
Insecurity
Vulnerability
" We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. "
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Back
Time
Need
" Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women. "
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Me
Help
Important
" 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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Father
You
Personal
" I have to prove myself to everybody. "
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Prove
Myself
Everybody
" You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right. "
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Your Dreams
People
Focus
" 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
" We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong. "
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Wrong
Great
Debt
" It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. "
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Leaves
Insurance
Health