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" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "

Elizabeth Warren

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

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

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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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" Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed. "

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" Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. "

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" I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means. "

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" And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together. "

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" When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel. "

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" Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along. "

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" When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush. "

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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. "

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" Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. "

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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 have to prove myself to everybody. "

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" Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety. "

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" Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off. "

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" I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests. "

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" My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory. "

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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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" It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table. "

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" I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right. "

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" Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads. "

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

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