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" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

Meet

Struggle

Need

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" Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. "

Elizabeth Warren

Support

Minimum Wage

" We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it. "

" 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 was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "

" Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. "

" I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means. "

" My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life. "

Elizabeth Warren

Finding

Mother

" There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry. "

" 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.' "

" Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. "

" Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. "

" If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget. "

Elizabeth Warren

Loans

Federal Reserve

" President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes. "

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

" Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know. "

" 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. "

" I think Hillary Clinton is terrific. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "

Elizabeth Warren

School

High School

" What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it. "

" I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. "

" I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them. "

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

" I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "

" When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel. "

Elizabeth Warren

Feel

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "