Elizabeth Warren Quotes

A collection of quotes by Elizabeth Warren.

Elizabeth Warren is an American politician, academic, and author, known for her progressive views and activism. She was born on June 22, 1949, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Warren earned a scholarship to George Washington University at the age of 16, where she studied speech pathology and audiology. Later, she transferred to the University of Houston, where she graduated with a degree in speech pathology and audiology.

After working as a special education teacher, Warren attended law school at Rutgers University and eventually began teaching law at several prestigious institutions, including Rutgers University and Harvard Law School. She became one of the country's leading experts on bankruptcy and banking law, advocating for consumer protection and fighting against financial institutions’ predatory practices.

In 2012, Warren won a seat in the United States Senate representing Massachusetts, defeating the incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown. During her time in the Senate, she has been a champion for affordable healthcare, income inequality, Wall Street regulation, and strengthening the middle class. Warren is well-known for her crusade against corruption and corporate influence in politics.

Considered a prominent figure in the progressive movement, Elizabeth Warren also ran as a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election. Her candidacy focused on various policies aimed at reducing income inequality, providing universal healthcare, and tackling climate change.

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I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew u

I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.

Elizabeth Warren

Family

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to b

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that 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.

Elizabeth Warren

Good

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges

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

Family

President Obama believes in a country where we invest in edu

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

Education

I do not understand how it is that financial institutions co

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.

Elizabeth Warren

Business

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I hea

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.

Elizabeth Warren

Change

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An econom

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

Elizabeth Warren

Future