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" Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there. "

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" Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt. "

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" No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever. "

" 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. "

" 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 think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "

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

" If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. "

" 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. "

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

" I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "

" 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. "

" I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them. "

" If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. "

" Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. "

" 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! "

" I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian. "

" Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. "

" Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off. "

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

" Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety. "