Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American academic and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts. Warren was formerly a professor of law, and taught at the University of Texas School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and most recently at Harvard Law School. A prominent scholar specializing in bankruptcy law, Warren was among the most cited in the field of commercial law before starting her political career...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth22 June 1949
CityOklahoma City, OK
CountryUnited States of America
Elizabeth Warren quotes about
The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can`t see the actual deal.
The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.
I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
Right now, with millions of Americans still out of work, and struggling to recover from the worst economic downturn since the great depression, with 40 million Americans dealing with student loans, with millions of people working full-time at minimum wage and still living in poverty, with the big banks getting bigger and the workers getting poorer, and seniors struggling to make ends meet, Republicans in Washington have decided the most important thing for them to focus on is how to deny women access to birth control.
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.
It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.
Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can't find a job.
This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.
If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.