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Elizabeth Warren Quotes

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“When I talk about this, some rich guys scream 'class warfare!’ Well, let me tell you something, these same rich guys have been waging class warfare against hard-working people for decades — I say it’s time to fight back!”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Class Warfare
“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, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: families, Banking
“Today, millions and millions and millions of American families are also struggling to survive in a system that has been rigged by the wealthy and the well-connected.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: rigged economy, wealthy
“This is the fight of our lives. The fight to build an America where dreams are possible, an America that works for everyone.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: American Dream
“In 1940, 90% of kids were destined to do better than their parents did. By the 1980s, the odds had slipped to 50/50. And now we could be the first generation in American history where more kids do worse than their parents.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: American Dream, 1940, 1980s
“When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: public sector
“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, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Bankers, Bankruptcy, Mortgage Crisis
“This shouldn’t be a my-party-your-party exercise. We should work together with one nonpartisan staff.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: party politics, Working Together, nonpartisan
“The Founding Fathers had called for bankruptcy protection in the Constitution itself, and surely even the banking lobby wouldn’t pick a fight with them.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Bankruptcy, Founding Fathers
“The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Bankers, Bankruptcy
“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, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Gun Violence, poor neighborhoods
“Since the early 1970s — adjusted for inflation — wages in America have barely budged. But the cost of housing has shot up nearly two-thirds.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Inflation, 1970s, housing costs
“Today the home-ownership gap between black and white families is 30 percentage points — bigger than it was back in 1960 when housing discrimination was actually legal.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Housing Discrimination, home ownership gap
“Listen, it’s too close to call. The road won’t be easy. But we are built for the long haul.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Red-faced Democrats struggle to announce caucus results
Tagged: Iowa Caucus
“Her position on abortion and other reproductive rights are clear: She believes women cannot be trusted to make decisions about their own bodies.”
— Elizabeth Warren, We Know Exactly How Amy Coney Barrett Feels About Abortion
Tagged: Amy Coney Barrett, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Abortion, Roe V. Wade, The Supreme Court
“We can whimper. We can whine. Or we can fight back! We come here to stand shoulder to shoulder to make clear: We are here! We will not be silent! We will not play dead! We will fight for what we believe in!”
— Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren Rallied Women Against President Trump
Tagged: Standing Up, Fight Back, Resist, Resistance
“For capitalism to work, we all need one another.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Capitalism, Cooperation
“Medical problems, job losses, and family breakups had laid these families low. Most had hung on and tried to repay long past any reasonable chance of doing so. As I saw it, the families in bankruptcy were mostly good people caught in a bad situation.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Middle Class, Bankruptcy, job loss
“Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself, and that is just one of the many reasons he will never be president of the United States, unfortunately just like Hillary Clinton.”
— Elizabeth Warren, You didn't build that- Wikipedia
Tagged: Donald Trump, Fraud, Hillary Clinton, False Predictions
“Start simple. Fix something people can see.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: start simple, Fix, visible
“Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Consumerism
“Overwhelming majorities of Americans want action. Huge crowds march on Washington demanding change. Letters. Phone calls. Protests. But nothing happens. Nothing. Why? Because if you don’t have money and you don’t have connections, Washington doesn’t want to hear from you.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Washington, Politics
“We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Gun Violence, Gun Control, virus
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody! You built a factory out there? Good for you, but I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.”
— Elizabeth Warren, You didn't build that- Wikipedia
Tagged: Entrepreneurs, You didn't build that
“I believe in an America of opportunity!”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: America, Opportunity
“We all know the Trump Administration is the most corrupt in living memory. But even after Trump is gone, it won’t be enough to do a better job of running a broken system. We need to take power in Washington away from the wealthy and well-connected and put it back in the hands of the people where it belongs!”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read: Elizabeth Warren’s 2020 announcement speech
Tagged: Trump Administration, Corrupt
“We can’t afford four more years of Donald Trump.”
— Elizabeth Warren, What's at Stake for Women on November 3
Tagged: 2020 Election, Women's Rights, Reproductive Rights, Trump, Biden
“Oh, come on, give me a break. This is exactly what the fossil fuel industry wants us to talk about. ... They want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around your lightbulbs, around your straws, and around your cheeseburgers, when 70 percent of the pollution, of the carbon that we’re throwing into the air, comes from three industries.”
— Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Warren blasts the plastic straw debate as a fossil fuel industry distraction tactic
Tagged: President, Primaries , Climate Change
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers 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. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did.

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 pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: You didn't build that, Factory, Capitalism
“They barely have time to fend off calls from angry creditors, let alone write letters to Congress. And most are profoundly, desperately ashamed of their situation. For many, the decision to file for bankruptcy proves to be the darkest secret of their entire lives. Politically speaking, they are almost invisible. And yet these families were up against what was already one of the best-organized, best-funded lobbies in America. (It would get even better organized and better funded in the years to come.)”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: families, creditors, Congress, lobbies
“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every ten to fifteen years. But we figured out how to fix it. Coming out of the Great Depression, the country put tough rules in place that gave us fifty years without a financial crisis. But in the 1980s, we started pulling the threads out of the regulatory fabric, and we found ourselves back in the boom-and-bust cycle. When this crisis is over, there will be a once-in-a-generation chance to rewrite the rules. What we set in place will determine whether our country continues down this path toward a boom-and-bust economy or whether we reestablish an economy with more stability that gives ordinary folks a chance at real prosperity. Done.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: Bankruptcy, Financial Crisis, Great Depression, boom and bust
“I believe that it’s this optimism about the future that sets us apart as a people, this optimism that makes America an exceptional nation. We built this country by striking out on new adventures and propelling ourselves forward on a path we named progress. Along the way, we learned that when we invest in one another, when we build schools and roads and research labs, we build a better future—a better future for ourselves and our children and our grandchildren. Equality. Opportunity. The pursuit of happiness. An America that builds something better for the next kid and the kid after that and the kid after that. No one is asking for a handout. All we want is a country where everyone pays a fair share, a country where we build opportunities for all of us; a country where everyone plays by the same rules and everyone is held accountable. And we have begun to fight for it. I believe in us. I believe in what we can do together, in what we will do together. All we need is a fighting chance.”
— Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance
Tagged: public sector, Optimism, Progress, Equality, Opportunity
“We believe that no matter who you are, no matter where you’re from, no matter who you love, equal means equal. Hillary will fight to make sure discrimination has no place in America. And we’re with her! We believe that no one, no one, who works full time should live in poverty. Hillary will fight for raising the minimum wage, fair scheduling, paid family and medical leave! And we’re with her!”
— Elizabeth Warren, Read Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Trump Speech at the Convention
Tagged: End Discrimination, Fight For The People, DNC 2016, Positive Endorsements of Hillary Clinton
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