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" We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong. "

Elizabeth Warren

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" We all understand that we are living longer, and we are more likely to spend more years as frail, elderly people who can't work. We also recognize that the wonderful advances in medicine also come with wonderful price tags. Those are things you can't budget around. "

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

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

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

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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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" I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share. "

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

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

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" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "

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

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" We've seen filibusters of bills and nominations that ultimately passed with 90 or more votes. Why filibuster something that has that kind of support? Just to slow down the process and keep the Senate from working. "

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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 hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody. "

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" Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico. "

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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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" 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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" Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products. "

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