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" I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it. "

Elizabeth Warren

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

" 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. "

" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "

" 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. "

" 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

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Keep

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

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

" I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share. "

Elizabeth Warren

Oil

Pay

" Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us. "

Elizabeth Warren

Chance

Creative

" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

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Important

" Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. "

" I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity! "

" 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. "

" Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. "

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

" 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. "

" The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall. "

" My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. "

" Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama! "

" We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class. "

" 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. "

" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "

" 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. "