Elizabeth Warren Quotes

“She was warned.
She was given an explanation.
Nevertheless, she persisted.”
― Mitch McConnell

“Otis, on the other hand, didn't miss home a bit. He had always hated the stairs in our house in Massachusetts. He was now five years old and very large for a golden retriever. I thought he was fat, but Bruce insisted he was just "big-boned". Either way, climbing the steep stairs at home was a challenge. Whenever Bruce and I went upstairs, Otis would sit near the bottom step, carefully calculating whether we would be on the second floor long enough to make it worthwhile to heave himself up the stairs. And on the way down the stairs, Otis was like a fully loaded eighteen-wheeler barreling down a steep hill. We just got out of his way.

But in the new Washington apartment building, Otis had an elevator. As far as he was concerned, life was sweet.”
― Elizabeth Warren

“He didn't seem to understand yet was that I didn't really care about the ways of Washington.”
― Elizabeth Warren, A Fighting Chance

“Pick your own act of defiance, something that says to you—and to others—that you won’t go along with the hate.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“The great Bonaventure said that the wise must enhance conceptual clarity with the truth implicit in the actions of the simple...."
"Like the chapter of Perugia and the learned memories of Ubertino, which transform into theological decisions the summons of the simple to poverty." I said.
"Yes, but as you have seen, this happens too late, and when it happens, the truth of the simple has already been transformed into the truth of the powerful, more useful for the Emperor Louis than for a Friar of the Poor Life.”
― Umberto Eco

“We need to live our values, to be the kind of nation that invests in opportunity, not just for some of us, but for all of us.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“Meanwhile, bank regulators looked off somewhere in the middle distance, wearing the same expression as a dog owner who’s pretending that his pooch isn’t pooping on your lawn.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“I’m here to ask you to fight for more funding for research on Alzheimer’s. Please. I’m going to forget, so I need you to remember.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“He thanked me for “engaging so thoroughly in the process.” I wondered if that was Senate code for being a pain in the neck, but I thought it better if I didn’t ask.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“Sometimes it pays to fight back, even when everyone says it would be better to give up.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“I like people who live in the world of data, even if they’re sometimes a little, um, unusual.”
― Elizabeth Warren, This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class

“In theory, inherent market inefficiencies and perverse incentives could be overcome by efficient regulation. But the same deep-seated tendencies that concentrate wealth and power in private tyrannies reduce the likelihood of such steps. In late 2009 there seemed to be one faint hope that Congress might institute some meaningful regulation: proposals by Senator Christopher Dodd, chair of the Senate Banking Committee. But Dodd succumbed to Wall Street pressure and abandoned his proposal in December 2009. One of its components was a new Consumer Financial Protection Agency intended to “crack down on abusive and risky lending practices that helped fuel last year’s financial crisis,” Michael Kranish commented in a rare press report. “Banks and other financial institutions have fought hard to kill the proposal,” he adds. And succeeded. He quotes Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law professor who originated the idea for the agency: “When all the dust settles, the real question for the history books will be whether Congress was able to create an independent consumer agency with the tools necessary to end abusive practices and to prevent future crises.” The answer appears to be a loud no, in our business-run democracy.”
― Noam Chomsky, Hopes and Prospects