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" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "
Elizabeth Warren
Someone
Right
Democrats
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" I have to prove myself to everybody. "
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" There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden. "
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" It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. "
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" Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. "
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" We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't. "
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" 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. "
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" Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. "
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" Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. "
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" 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. "
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" If you don't talk about families, then it's easy to disembody subprime mortgages and asset securitization and unemployment rates without remembering that every one of those numbers is a million families. "
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" 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. "
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People
Focus
" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "
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Core
Career
Teaching
" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "
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" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "
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Service
Postal
" 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
" I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "
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Day
One Day
Know
" A good education is a foundation for a better future. "
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Good
Future
Education
" I'm not a Washington person. "
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Washington
" 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. "
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Thinking
Change
Landscape
" Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads. "
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Cops
Stop
Problems
" Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. "
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Believe
Say
Powerful
" G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions. "
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Education
Questions
College
" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "
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Time
Government
" I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. "
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Conclusions
Want
Truth
" We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. "
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" Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent. "
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Laws
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" There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry. "
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Lot
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" 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. "
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People
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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. "
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Less
Risk