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" 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. "

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" I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.' "

Elizabeth Warren

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

" I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. "

" People with banking experience haven't all flocked to the biggest banks; community banks and regional banks, along with smaller trading houses and credit unions, have some very talented people. "

" When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value. "

" I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them. "

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

" President Obama believes in a level playing field. "

" There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills. "

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

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

" Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. "

Elizabeth Warren

Interest Rates

Interest

" 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

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

" G.E. doesn't pay any taxes, and we are asking college kids to take on even more debt to get an education and asking seniors to get by on less. These aren't just economic questions. These are moral questions. "

" There is one thing Anthony Weiner and I agree on: there are a lot of smart, hard-working people in the financial industry. "

" 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. "

" There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people. "

" 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. "

" I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. "

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

" There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces. "

" 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. "

" It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was. "

Elizabeth Warren

School

High School

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

" 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. "

" Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women. "

Elizabeth Warren

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

" 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. "

" 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. "