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" We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance. "

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" If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted. "

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

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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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" Truly successful lives are about family. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. "

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" We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. "

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

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" You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families. "

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" Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it. "

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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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" I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage. "

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

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" Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing. "

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" With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change. "

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

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" I'm not running for president. "

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" Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. "

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" People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner. "

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" My mother had taught me about the importance of finding a 'good provider,' so when my boyfriend proposed, I said 'yes' in a heartbeat. I was still just a kid, and I didn't know what was coming in life. "

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" I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it. "

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" Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class. "

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" You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything in your factory and hire someone to protect against this because of the work the rest of us did. "

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