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" The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder. "
Elizabeth Warren
Ladder
Trapped
Poor
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs. "
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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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Country
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" I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics. "
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Choice
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" 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. "
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World
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" Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors? "
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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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" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "
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" 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! "
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Work
Powerful
" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "
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Know
Washington
Here
" If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget. "
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Loans
Up
Federal Reserve
" It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable. "
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Leaves
Insurance
Health
" Truly successful lives are about family. "
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Truly
Lives
Successful
" People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged. "
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People
Right
Feel
" You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.' "
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Cards
Credit
Easy
" 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
Real
Life
Real Life
" I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian. "
Elizabeth Warren
Work
Independent
Mean
" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Back
Push
" Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine. "
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Time
Government
Influence
" If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me. "
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Vote
Me
Nobody
" 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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Mother
Go
Trouble
" 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. "
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You
Looking
Opportunity
" 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. "
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Father
You
Personal
" I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off. "
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High School
School
Off
" 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.' "
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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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Me
Help
Important
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Washington
Class
Big
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