Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

Numbers

Easy

Talk

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "

Elizabeth Warren

Compensation

Nothing

" G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions. "

" Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures. "

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

" Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. "

" 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. "

" We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. "

" 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. "

" The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall. "

" 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.' "

" Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors. "

" 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. "

" I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. "

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

" Truly successful lives are about family. "

" I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "

" 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. "

" Thomas Piketty assembles the facts to prove a central point about trickle-down economics: Doesn't work. Never did. He has cold, hard data showing how the rich keep getting richer and how the playing field is rigged against working families. "

" We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it. "

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

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

Elizabeth Warren

School

High School

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

" You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs. "

" I have to prove myself to everybody. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

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