Top 100 Elizabeth Warren Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It takes money to run political campaigns. This is a cancer growing on the soul of our democracy.”

— Elizabeth Warren

52. “Everything we stand for can be expressed in terms of how we spend our money.”

— Elizabeth Warren

53. “Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America’s veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.”

— Elizabeth Warren

54. “President Obama believes in a level playing field.”

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Elizabeth Warren

56. “Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965 – about 24 percent lower. That job at Sears allowed my mother to eke out a.”

— Elizabeth Warren

57. “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.”

— Elizabeth Warren

58. “Medical problems, job losses, and family breakups had laid these families low. Most had hung on and tried to repay long past any reasonable chance of doing so. As I saw it, the families in bankruptcy were mostly good people caught in a bad situation.”

— Elizabeth Warren

59. “If there had been a Financial Product Safety Commission in place 10 years ago, the current financial crisis would have been averted.”

— Elizabeth Warren

60. “The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It’s perfect circularity.”

— Elizabeth Warren

61. “I’m really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.”

— Elizabeth Warren

62. “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.”

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Elizabeth Warren

64. “We need to remind politicians they don’t work for the big banks – they work for us.”

— Elizabeth Warren

65. “I want to be blunt: We should not be fighting about equal pay for equal work, and access to birth control, in 2012. These issues were resolved years ago – until the Republicans brought them back.”

— Elizabeth Warren

66. “Officer Rose was the president of the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association at the time, and he was furious.”

— Elizabeth Warren

67. “Today the game is rigged – rigged to work for those who have money and power. Big corporations hire armies of lobbyists to get billion-dollar loopholes into the tax system and persuade their friends in Congress to support laws that keep the playing field tilted in their favor. Meanwhile, hardworking families are told that they’ll just have to live with smaller dreams for their children.”

— Elizabeth Warren

68. “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.”

— Elizabeth Warren

69. “Of course, not every kid has the same risk of becoming a victim. A large number of those gun deaths occur in poor neighborhoods.”

— Elizabeth Warren

70. “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.”

— Elizabeth Warren

71. “Middle class America is acutely aware of how bad this economy is, and it is going to demand changes. I don’t think politicians can afford to be complacent.”

— Elizabeth Warren

72. “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

73. “America could do a lot with the money taxpayers spend to keep afloat people who are working full-time but whose employers don’t pay a living wage. Of.”

— Elizabeth Warren

74. “Families are going broke because they buy too much stuff!”

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Elizabeth Warren

76. “Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.”

— Elizabeth Warren

77. “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.”

— Elizabeth Warren

78. “Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.”

— Elizabeth Warren

79. “The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than three years ago, and there has been no real accountability, and there has been no real effort to fix it.”

— Elizabeth Warren

80. “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

81. “The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall – inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.”

— Elizabeth Warren

82. “I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.”

— Elizabeth Warren

83. “Paul Ryan looks around, sees three unemployed workers for every job opening in America, and blames the people who can’t find a job.”

— Elizabeth Warren

84. “There were a million things we needed to figure out – and the congressman thought the most important thing we needed to do was slice up the operating budget so each political party was assured its “fair share”? Welcome to Washington. Once.”

— Elizabeth Warren

85. “Enforcement isn’t about big government or small government. It’s about whether government works and who it works for.”

— Elizabeth Warren

86. “We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits; not cutting them.”

— Elizabeth Warren

87. “I also understood that for more than forty years, workers’ pay hadn’t kept pace with inflation. Productivity had gone up. Profits had gone up. Executives had gotten raises. Couldn’t we at last come together to make sure that the people who did some of the hardest, dirtiest work in the nation got at least a chance to build a little security? And.”

— Elizabeth Warren

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

— Elizabeth Warren

89. “Nobody who works full time deserves to live in poverty.”

— Elizabeth Warren

90. “If ever there was a time to fight, this was it.”

— Elizabeth Warren

91. “What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.”

— Elizabeth Warren

92. “America’s middle class was under attack.”

— Elizabeth Warren

93. “I’m happy that the GDP is up and unemployment is down. Yay! But I’m not drinking champagne. In fact, I’m hitting alarm buttons everywhere I can. Our once-solid middle class is in mortal danger – in danger and running out of time. Every one of those happy numbers is used by nearly every economic reporter and pundit and politician, but those numbers paper over the fact that America’s middle class is literally disappearing. NO.”

— Elizabeth Warren

94. “Evidently there is no need for delay, no need for further study, if the government takes a loss and Wall Street makes a profit, but it is absolutely necessary to delay if homeowners might have a chance to cut their mortgages and stay in their homes. This is wrong, and it is time to fight back!”

— Elizabeth Warren

95. “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

96. “Think tanks support so-called experts who will offer an opinion on anything – if the price is right. The result is that the rich and powerful flourish, while everyone else is left further and further behind. The cumulative impact of decades of these decisions has been to hollow out America’s middle class and to leave us, as a nation, weakened. The game is rigged. It is deliberately, persistently, and aggressively rigged to help the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful.”

— Elizabeth Warren

97. “Whether the future looks scary or bright, plans are hopes made practical. They reassure people that there’s a roadmap that will take them to a better place and they give people a reason to join in the effort to get there.”

— Elizabeth Warren

98. “I loved my mother. I wanted her to smile, to believe that I was doing the right thing. But that wasn’t going to happen. So I ducked my head and kept on going.”

— Elizabeth Warren

99. “My mother wasn’t much into politics, but I’m sure she would have assumed that fifty years later, the minimum wage would be a lot higher. If it could feed a family of three and pay a mortgage in 1965, surely by now a minimum wage would let a family afford, say, a home and a car – and maybe even a little money for college applications for a skinny daughter. Right? Wrong. Way wrong. Adjusted for inflation, the minimum wage today is lower than it was in 1965 – about 24 percent lower.”

— Elizabeth Warren

100. “What happened is an economic boa constrictor that is squeezing working families so hard they can’t breathe. Gina.”

— Elizabeth Warren