Top 100 Quotes About Elizabeth Warren
#1. MOANING MYRTLE: What did you call me? Do I moan? Am I moaning now? AM I? AM I? SCORPIUS: No, I didn't mean . . . MOANING MYRTLE: What's my name? SCORPIUS: Myrtle. MOANING MYRTLE: Exactly - Myrtle. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning.
J.K. Rowling
#2. I don't want to sell credit to people who are going to hurt themselves with it. You should only sell products that are good for the people who use them. Some disagree with this, but I know I'm right. That is to say, you're talking to a Republican who admires Elizabeth Warren.
Charlie Munger
#3. Elizabeth Warren is, I think, a great demonstration of the kind of movement-oriented model-wielding power from within the Senate. Over and over, she's rallied tons of people to battles that they don't normally get involved in.
Ben Wikler
#4. Myrtle Elizabeth Warren - a pretty name - my name - no need for the moaning. SCORPIUS:
J.K. Rowling
#5. I would say that folks who have looked at this issue for a long time, whether it's Elizabeth Warren or many other economists, will tell you that right now, yes, we do need a 21st century Glass-Steagall legislation.
Hillary Clinton
#6. I think a Donald Trump presidency sets up an Elizabeth Warren ascendancy. And it not Elizabeth Warren, someone of her ilk. And I think that's dreadful.
Bret Stephens
#7. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#8. Groupthink can become a serious issue - old ideas stay around after they're useful, and new ideas too often don't get a fair hearing.
Elizabeth Warren
#9. Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.
Elizabeth Warren
#10. I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
Elizabeth Warren
#11. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#12. Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don't keep the marketplace honest.
Elizabeth Warren
#13. The bankruptcy wars changed me forever. Even before this grinding battle, I had begun to understand the terrible squeeze on the middle class. But it was this fight that showed me how badly the playing field was tilted and taught me that the squeeze wasn't accidental.
Elizabeth Warren
#14. It worries me about what happens if people in government are looking for that next job: 'Yeah I'm working now, not as much money as I could be making, but when I leave here, that's where I'm headed.' That ultimately infects whatever it is that they're doing.
Elizabeth Warren
#15. 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
#16. When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
Elizabeth Warren
#17. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don't run this country for corporations, we run it for people.
Elizabeth Warren
#18. It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game.
Elizabeth Warren
#19. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#20. Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
Elizabeth Warren
#21. I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.
Elizabeth Warren
#22. I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.
Elizabeth Warren
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. There are those who believe justice and dignity are reserved only for some people. Young men have died in police custody, and the growing heel of poverty has worn down harder on children of color ... We must fight back.
Elizabeth Warren
#26. 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
#27. I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.
Elizabeth Warren
#28. It's a story about what's worth fighting for, and how sometimes, even when we fight against very powerful opponents, we can win.
Elizabeth Warren
#29. 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
#32. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters.
Elizabeth Warren
#33. Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
Elizabeth Warren
#34. Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.
Elizabeth Warren
#35. I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.
Elizabeth Warren
#36. College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.
Elizabeth Warren
#37. For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
Elizabeth Warren
#39. People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
Elizabeth Warren
#40. 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
#41. Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.
Elizabeth Warren
#42. I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.
Elizabeth Warren
#43. 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
#45. Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
Elizabeth Warren
#46. 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
#47. Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.
Elizabeth Warren
#48. I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.
Elizabeth Warren
#49. Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
Elizabeth Warren
#51. By late 2008, one out of every five mortgage holders owed more than their homes were worth. The banks called in the loans, and the foreclosure notices piled up.
Elizabeth Warren
#52. Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.
Elizabeth Warren
#53. These families need you." I said it quietly, and the silence stretched some more. I tried to steady my breathing. He paused again, then gave a deep sigh and said, "All right. I'll do it. I'll do what I can.
Elizabeth Warren
#54. Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods.
Elizabeth Warren
#55. We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month. We see lives that look nothing like those lived by billionaires in eighteen-thousand-square-foot condos, because these people don't live in some fairy tale - they live in today's reality. *
Elizabeth Warren
#56. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#57. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#58. If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open,
Elizabeth Warren
#59. My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.
Elizabeth Warren
#60. Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.
Elizabeth Warren
#61. 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
#62. President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid afer that and the kid after that, that's what President Obama believes.
Elizabeth Warren
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. She was warned.
She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she persisted.
Mitch McConnell
#66. What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
Elizabeth Warren
#67. The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.
Elizabeth Warren
#68. 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
#69. Democrats fought to get health insurance for more Americans. Democrats fought for a strong consumer agency so big banks can't cheat people. We fought, we won, and we improved the lives of millions of people - thank you, President Obama!
Elizabeth Warren
#70. Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.
Elizabeth Warren
#71. It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
Elizabeth Warren
#72. I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.
Elizabeth Warren
#73. '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
#74. Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
Elizabeth Warren
#75. I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.
Elizabeth Warren
#76. I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
Elizabeth Warren
#77. I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Warren
#78. Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.
Elizabeth Warren
#79. I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.
Elizabeth Warren
#80. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#81. Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that's our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.
Elizabeth Warren
#82. I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
Elizabeth Warren
#83. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#84. I loved my mother. I wanted her to smile, to believe that I was doing the right thing. But that wasn't going to happen. So I ducked my head and kept on going.
Elizabeth Warren
#85. The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.
Elizabeth Warren
#87. The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.
Elizabeth Warren
#88. Citigroup has a lot of money, it spends a lot of money, and it uses that money to grow and consolidate power. And it pays off.
Elizabeth Warren
#89. I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.
Elizabeth Warren
#90. 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
#92. 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
#93. Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
Elizabeth Warren
#94. 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
#95. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
#96. Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
Elizabeth Warren
#97. If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
Elizabeth Warren
#99. 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
#100. 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.
Elizabeth Warren
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