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" 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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" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

Education

Questions

College

" Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready. "

" I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth. "

" Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

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

" I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Elizabeth Warren

Mother

Trouble

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

" Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt. "

" Truly successful lives are about family. "

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

" 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. "

" I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident. These things just suddenly hit you one day. "

" We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't. "

Elizabeth Warren

Ourselves

Tell

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

" If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine. "

" Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family's Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation - what kid would? "

" 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. "

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

" I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. "

" I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian. "

" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "

" In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it. "

" If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system. "