Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.' "

Elizabeth Warren

American

I Am

Vote

Related Quotes:

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

" It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. "

" 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. "

" We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't. "

Elizabeth Warren

Ourselves

Tell

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. "

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

" How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education. "

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

" If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system. "

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

" When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. "

" There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. "

" What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it. "

" 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.' "

" Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads. "

" I have to prove myself to everybody. "

" I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. "

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

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

" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a Washington person. "

Elizabeth Warren

Person

Washington

" 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? "

" With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy. "