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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. "

Elizabeth Warren

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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. "

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" I'm not running for president. "

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

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" It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing. "

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" I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way. "

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" With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods. "

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

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" Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans. "

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

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" 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. "

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" Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out. "

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

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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