C. Elizabeth Quotes

Donald Trump is a threat economically to America.

I don't like credit cards. Let me triple underline that.

The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.

The need for comprehensive reform must not blind us to the urgency of addressing the massive debt that's already crushing our young people.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way we'd talk about sparkly shoes or what had happened at school.

I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial'.

Part of my job is to make sense of all that I hear, and to retell it in a forceful way so that the decision-makers at Treasury can hear it. At least that's how I see it.

Our number one responsibility is to protect Americans from terrorism, that’s our job, so being tough on terrorism is enormously important.

Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun.

Donald Trump cannot, cannot be the man who leads the United States of America.

Сount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.

Donald Trump is a genuine threat to America.

Once kids get older, the list is longer. So here goes: Stay out of debt. Sometimes debt is necessary, to buy a home or to get an education, but not to buy a sweater or to eat out.

Say good-bye to the Affordable Care Act. That means 20 million people who lose their health insurance, just like that.

Adjusted for inflation, somebody going to college today to a state university, is paying about 300 percent of what her mom or dad did just 30 years ago.

Good for Warren Buffett that he can afford to do that! Some people, sometimes, need to finance a purchase or rent a car, and a credit card becomes a necessity.

We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.

I wanted to see Democrats out there talking about our core set of issues. And let people around this country vote, let - people have caucuses, let them do it however they're going to do it.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

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.

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.

I oppose the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. It's an ill-conceived project that would lock us into further dependence on some of the dirtiest fossil fuels on the planet.

[My grandkids] are 5, 10, and 15. While they're young and still at home, I think it's all about learning the value of money.

My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.

Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process.

There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.

Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.

Congress must go further to protect the right to privacy, to end the NSA's dragnet surveillance of ordinary Americans, to make the intelligence community more transparent and accountable.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Fight with realistic hope, not to destroy all the world's wrong, but to renew its good.

You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.

It's like being in love, discovering your best friend.

Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on.

I sometimes think young people are not given nearly enough credit for their ability to appreciate literary flourish.

There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

Kiss me, Hardy!’ Weren’t those Nelson’s last words at the Battle of Trafalgar? Don’t cry. We’re still alive and we make a sensational team.

A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.

It is so hard trying to say what you mean.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Must stop. This ink is amazing, it really doesn't smear, even when you cry on it

It's impossible to stall a Lizzie.

If you show this devious little liar one atom's worth of compassion I will have you shot.