American - Public | June 22, 1949 -
If President Barack Obama had not been in the White House, we would not have the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today.
Elizabeth Warren
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If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
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I got married at 19 and graduated from a commuter college in Texas that cost $50 a semester. The way I see it, I'm a janitor's daughter who became a public school teacher, a professor, and a United States Senator. America is truly a country of opportunity!
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I'm not going to talk about who I voted for.
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Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.
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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.
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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.
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I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
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I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
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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.
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I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around and act like it's business as usual. I don't understand how they can't see that the world has changed in a fundamental way, that it is not business as usual when you take taxpayer dollars.
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If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.
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