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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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Seize
Worry
Work
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" I have to prove myself to everybody. "
Elizabeth Warren
Prove
Myself
Everybody
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Feel
People
Me
" I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas. "
Elizabeth Warren
Front
Bus
Stop
" If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret. "
Elizabeth Warren
Influence
Know
Money
" Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. "
Elizabeth Warren
Investing
Time
Government
" I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people. "
Elizabeth Warren
Think
Sure
People
" 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.' "
Elizabeth Warren
Cards
Credit
Easy
" Wall Street's outsized influence in our nation's capital is something I've talked about for a long time - long before I even thought about running for office. But where I see a problem - an infestation, really - a lot of others in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, seem to see government working just fine. "
Elizabeth Warren
Time
Government
Influence
" Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. "
Elizabeth Warren
Go
Interest Rates
Interest
" The core of my career is my teaching and my writing. "
Elizabeth Warren
Core
Career
Teaching
" 'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer. "
Elizabeth Warren
Work
Boring
People
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Credit
Experience
People
" I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families. "
Elizabeth Warren
Know
Washington
Here
" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "
Elizabeth Warren
History
Service
Postal
" 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
Me
Help
Important
" People who graduate are more resilient financially, and they weather economic downturns better than people who don't graduate. And, throughout their lives, people who graduate are more likely to be economically secure, more likely to be healthy, and more likely to live longer. Face it: A college degree puts a lot in your corner. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Weather
Face
" Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed. "
Elizabeth Warren
Trouble
Family
Financial
" Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you. "
Elizabeth Warren
You
Looking
Opportunity
" We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. "
Elizabeth Warren
Social
Conversation
Stop
" Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women. "
Elizabeth Warren
Class
Insecurity
Vulnerability
" There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden. "
Elizabeth Warren
Rules
Hidden
Financial
" Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back. "
Elizabeth Warren
People
Back
Push
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Government
Best
People
" Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. "
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Good Things
Reading
" I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin. "
Elizabeth Warren
Nobody Cares
Change
Want
" If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system. "
Elizabeth Warren
Lot
Less
Risk
" We've seen filibusters to block judicial nominations, jobs bills, political transparency, ending Big Oil subsidies - you name it, there's been a filibuster. "
Elizabeth Warren
Ending
Big
Oil
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Roads
Rest
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Real
Life
Real Life
" 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. "
Elizabeth Warren
Medical
Loss
Women