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" Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? "
Elizabeth Warren
Kid
Thought
Mother
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" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Boston
World
Marathon
" If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine. "
Elizabeth Warren
Understand
Product
Plan
" I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way. "
Elizabeth Warren
Truth
Business
Community
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Your Dreams
People
Focus
" Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. "
Elizabeth Warren
Support
Minimum Wage
More
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Dirty
Keep
Us
" I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off. "
Elizabeth Warren
High School
School
Off
" If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. "
Elizabeth Warren
Years
Financial
Crisis
" It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Job
Looking
Money
" I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. "
Elizabeth Warren
Front
Bus
Stop
" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Core
Career
Teaching
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Real
Life
Real Life
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Work
Rich
Facts
" 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
" 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
" We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. "
Elizabeth Warren
Want
Just
Celebrate
" 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
Me
" Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. "
Elizabeth Warren
Waiting
School
Taught
" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "
Elizabeth Warren
Obama
President
Field
" In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. "
Elizabeth Warren
Keep
Job
Family
" There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. "
Elizabeth Warren
Table
People
Decision-Making
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Think
Smart
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Roads
Future
Kid
" With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. "
Elizabeth Warren
Thinking
Change
Landscape
" 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
" America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it. "
Elizabeth Warren
America
Great
Out
" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "
Elizabeth Warren
Someone
Right
Democrats
" 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
" Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Ideas
Old
Serious
" Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. "
Elizabeth Warren
Corporations
Who
Said