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" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Lot
Less
Risk
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" 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. "
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Seize
Worry
Work
" We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong. "
Elizabeth Warren
Wrong
Great
Debt
" I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. "
Elizabeth Warren
Nobody
Rich
Class
" Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out. "
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Day
People
See
" Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready. "
Elizabeth Warren
I Am
Generation
World
" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "
Elizabeth Warren
Social
Conversation
Stop
" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Back
Push
" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Core
Career
Teaching
" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "
Elizabeth Warren
Class
Insecurity
Vulnerability
" 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
Us
Chance
Creative
" In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it. "
Elizabeth Warren
Education
Today
School
" Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. "
Elizabeth Warren
Banking
Financial
He
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Medical
Loss
Women
" Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. "
Elizabeth Warren
Support
Minimum Wage
More
" I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share. "
Elizabeth Warren
Share
Oil
Pay
" 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
" 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
" Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it. "
Elizabeth Warren
See
Sense
Way
" 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
Me
Help
Important
" If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law. "
Elizabeth Warren
Break
Law
Financial
" We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class. "
Elizabeth Warren
Democracy
Class
Run
" We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. "
Elizabeth Warren
Economy
Wall
Street
" If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. "
Elizabeth Warren
Influence
Know
Money
" The over-representation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one - and only one - point of view will dominate economic policymaking. "
Elizabeth Warren
Point Of View
People
Government
" 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
" People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Right
Feel
" Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. "
Elizabeth Warren
Health
Even
Insurance
" I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. "
Elizabeth Warren
Become
Really
Concerned
" Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know. "
Elizabeth Warren
Know
People
Jobs
" If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget. "
Elizabeth Warren
Loans
Up
Federal Reserve