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" When giant companies wanted more tax loopholes, Washington got it done. When huge energy companies wanted to tear up our environment, Washington got it done. When enormous Wall Street banks wanted new regulatory loopholes, Washington got it done. No gridlock there! "

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" What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it. "

Elizabeth Warren

Rules

Country

Economy

" When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake. "

" 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. "

" I held my father's hand while he died of cancer, and it's really painful when you do something like that up close and personal. My mother was already gone, and I was very, very close to my father. "

" 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. "

" For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival. "

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

" 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. "

" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "

" If the notion on this is we're going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don't vote for me. "

Elizabeth Warren

Vote

Nobody

" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way. "

" 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. "

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

" America had been a boom-and-bust economy going into the Great Depression - just over and over and over, fortunes were wiped out, ordinary families were crushed under it. "

" Truly successful lives are about family. "

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

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

" We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. "

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

" Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends. "

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

" What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it. "

" I'm not a Washington person. "

Elizabeth Warren

Person

Washington

" Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buying oil tankers. This is not a financial system that has calmed down and is there to serve the American people. "

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

" 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. "