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" 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. "

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" People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. "

Elizabeth Warren

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

" For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival. "

" Truly successful lives are about family. "

" America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it. "

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

" What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40. "

Elizabeth Warren

Church

Done

" 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. "

" I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off. "

" 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. "

" In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. "

" In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the selling point on this bankruptcy law was, 'It will preserve jobs.' "

" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "

Elizabeth Warren

Compensation

Nothing

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen. "

Elizabeth Warren

World

Everyone

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