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

Elizabeth Warren

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" I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets. I think that is not true anymore. I was a Republican at a time when I felt like there was a problem that the markets were under a lot more strain. It worried me whether or not the government played too activist a role. "

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

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" 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.' "

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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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" Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors? "

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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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" 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. "

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

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" It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well. "

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" 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. "

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

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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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" Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. "

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" Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system. "

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" Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. "

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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 grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us. "

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" In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat. "

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

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

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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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" With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans who don't have basic banking services because there are almost no banks or bank branches in their neighborhoods. "

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