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" 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. "

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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. "

Elizabeth Warren

Break

Law

Financial

" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "

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

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

" If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States! "

" 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 will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts. "

" President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes. "

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

" You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. "

" 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. "

" Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed. "

" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "

Elizabeth Warren

School

High School

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner. "

" 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. "

" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "

" Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking. "

" 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

Chance

Creative

" 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. "

" When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value. "

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

" Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric. "

Elizabeth Warren

Dirty

Keep

" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "

Elizabeth Warren

Compensation

Nothing

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

" People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. "

" 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. "

" My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life. "

Elizabeth Warren

Finding

Mother