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
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
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
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. – Elizabeth Warren
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick. – Elizabeth Warren
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. – Elizabeth Warren
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
How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education. – Elizabeth Warren
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We’re a nation of debtors. – Elizabeth Warren
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs… to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they’re going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans. – Elizabeth Warren
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it’s 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text. – Elizabeth Warren
Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You’re ready. – Elizabeth Warren
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
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
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today. – Elizabeth Warren
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
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.’ – Elizabeth Warren
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
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value. – Elizabeth Warren
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. – Elizabeth Warren
Growing up, my mother and grandparents often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never thought to ask them for documentation – what kid would? – Elizabeth Warren