Elizabeth Warren Quotes

Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.

If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

The people who are filing for bankruptcy in increasing numbers every year, it's not the poorest. It's not the people at the economic fringes. It's people who worked hard and played by the rules.

Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.

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.

It is critical that the American people, and not just their financial institutions, be represented at the negotiating table.

Say good-bye to a Supreme Court that is truly open and balanced and looking out for the American people. Instead the Republicans just want to capture a right-wing court for another whole generation.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.

We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

I'm proud of my Native American heritage.

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.

My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor.

There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch.

Hillary Clinton is a fighter, she's out there, she's tough.

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.