Quotes by Elizabeth Warren

About Elizabeth Warren:

Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American academic and politician, who is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously a Harvard Law School professor specializing in bankruptcy law. A prominent legal scholar, Warren is among the most cited in the field of commercial law. She is an active consumer protection advocate whose scholarship led to the conception and establishment of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren has written a number of academic and popular works, and is a frequent subject of media interviews regarding the American economy and personal finance.
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Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.

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We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

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

Elizabeth Warren

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

Elizabeth Warren

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

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

Elizabeth Warren

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

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You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

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

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Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

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

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Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?

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Early 2000s, we get Enron, which tells us the books are dirty. And what is our repeated response? We just keep pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric.

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

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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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If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.

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I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.

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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.'

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In 1978, we adopted a new Bankruptcy Code in the United States, and a principal part of this was designed to adjust to the new corporation, to find ways to let a corporation that had gotten into financial trouble reorganize itself. A big part of the ...

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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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My brothers and I grew up on stories about our grandfather building one-room schoolhouses and about our grandparents' courtship and their early lives together in Indian Territory.

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Author Bio

  • NameElizabeth Warren
  • Description28th United States Senator from Massachusetts (Class 1)
  • BornJune 22, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJurist; Politician; Teacher