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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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" No matter how good a deal sounds, if your name goes on the bottom line, you need to understand it and be sure you'll be able to pay. You are responsible for yourself forever. Forever. "

Elizabeth Warren

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Yourself

You

" 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. "

" Markets work when people can evaluate the prices and risks of different products, then pick the ones that work best for them. But when the terms of the deal are hidden, competition doesn't work. And customers aren't the only ones who are hurt. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. "

Elizabeth Warren

Banking

Financial

" Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures. "

" A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation. "

Elizabeth Warren

Compensation

Nothing

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. "

" I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "

" Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out. "

" All I can say is I was a lot more discreet as a candidate than I was in real life. Can I say that? Maybe it's indiscreet to talk about discretion. "

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

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

Elizabeth Warren

Oil

Pay

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

" In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it. "

" Most women file for bankruptcy in the aftermath of a serious medical problem, a job loss, or a family break up. It is hard to protect against those. "

" 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. "

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

" The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother. "

Elizabeth Warren

Mother

Trouble

" You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. "

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