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" 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. "

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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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Children

" 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. "

" Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. "

" I'm not going to talk about who I voted for. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. "

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

" We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't. "

Elizabeth Warren

Ourselves

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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. "

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

" People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people. "

" 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer. "

" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. "

" I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. "

" I'm not a Washington person. "

Elizabeth Warren

Person

Washington

" And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together. "

" I have voted against only one of President Obama's nominees: Michael Froman, a Citigroup alumnus who is currently storming the halls of Congress as U.S. Trade Representative pushing trade deals that threaten to undermine financial regulation, workers' rights, and environmental protections. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working. "