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

Elizabeth Warren

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" 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. "

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

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" We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it. "

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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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" I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives. "

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" 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. "

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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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" There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry. "

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

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" '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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" A good education is a foundation for a better future. "

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" Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. "

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" I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance. "

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" Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know. "

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" 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. "

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" I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage. "

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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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" 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. "

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