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" I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.' "

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

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" If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today. "

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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've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. "

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

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

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

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

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" The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder. "

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" We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around. "

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" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "

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" I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. "

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" 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. "

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