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" Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric. "

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" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

" We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "

" Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. "

Elizabeth Warren

Banking

Financial

" 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer. "

" Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. "

" Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. "

" 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. "

" I'm not going to talk about who I voted for. "

" Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there. "

" Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety. "

" You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families. "

" 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! "

" I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. "

" For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival. "

" 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. "

" Truly successful lives are about family. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. "

" In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a Washington person. "

Elizabeth Warren

Person

Washington

" Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. "

Elizabeth Warren

Interest Rates

Interest

" 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. "

" 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. "