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" You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs. "
Elizabeth Warren
Break
People
You
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" Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. "
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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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Stupid
You
Mistake
" 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. "
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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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Thinking
Change
Landscape
" 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. "
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Father
You
Personal
" 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. "
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Influence
Want
Street
" Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you. "
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Cards
Long
Will
" 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. "
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Wrong
Great
Debt
" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "
Elizabeth Warren
Social
Conversation
Stop
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Care
Easy
Think
" If you believe that America must work for all of us, not just the rich and powerful, if you believe we must reject the politics of fear and division, if you believe we are stronger together, then let's work our hearts out to make Hillary Clinton the next President of the United States! "
Elizabeth Warren
Together
Work
Powerful
" We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008. "
Elizabeth Warren
Economy
Wall
Street
" I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I going to do?' My husband's view of it was, 'Stay home... We'll have more children; you'll love this.' And I was very restless about it. "
Elizabeth Warren
Home
Love
Children
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Risks
Work
Best
" I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off. "
Elizabeth Warren
High School
School
Off
" Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine. "
Elizabeth Warren
Gold
Debt
Class
" America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy. "
Elizabeth Warren
Washington
Class
Big
" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "
Elizabeth Warren
History
Service
Postal
" I'm not running for president. "
Elizabeth Warren
Running
President
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Understand
Product
Plan
" I'm not going to talk about who I voted for. "
Elizabeth Warren
Who
About
Going
" We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it. "
Elizabeth Warren
Model
Explain
Need
" I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity! "
Elizabeth Warren
Opportunity
School
Teacher
" When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value. "
Elizabeth Warren
Pay
Earned
Car
" Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. "
Elizabeth Warren
Heart
You
Mom
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Education
Today
School
" Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen. "
Elizabeth Warren
World
Like
Everyone
" I'm not a Washington person. "
Elizabeth Warren
Person
Washington
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Truth
Business
Community
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Job
People
Stress