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" The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families. "
Elizabeth Warren
Protect
Investment
Financial
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" All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion. "
Elizabeth Warren
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Life
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" If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine. "
Elizabeth Warren
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Product
Plan
" I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father. "
Elizabeth Warren
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" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "
Elizabeth Warren
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" I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little. "
Elizabeth Warren
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" Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready. "
Elizabeth Warren
I Am
Generation
World
" 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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Build
Think
You
" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "
Elizabeth Warren
Obama
President
Field
" There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. "
Elizabeth Warren
Debt
Pay
Cards
" I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars. "
Elizabeth Warren
Financial
World
Money
" I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "
Elizabeth Warren
Day
One Day
Know
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Name
Yourself
You
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Thinking
Change
Landscape
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Trouble
Family
Financial
" There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces. "
Elizabeth Warren
Broken
Say
You
" I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin. "
Elizabeth Warren
Nobody Cares
Change
Want
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Medicine
People
Work
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Meet
Struggle
Need
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Rules
Hidden
Financial
" If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. "
Elizabeth Warren
Years
Financial
Crisis
" I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts. "
Elizabeth Warren
Heart
Will
People
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Lot
Less
Risk
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
See
Sense
Way
" People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Right
Feel
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Your Dreams
People
Focus
" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "
Elizabeth Warren
Know
Washington
Here
" When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there! "
Elizabeth Warren
Street
New
Done
" We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. "
Elizabeth Warren
Back
Time
Need
" Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent. "
Elizabeth Warren
Think
Laws
Know
" 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
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