Quotes from Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

The over-representation of Wall Street banks in senior government positions sends a bad message. It tells people that one - and only one - point of view will dominate economic policymaking.

We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees in 2008.

I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to make bigger profits off the backs of the American people.'

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

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.

Balancing your money is the key to having enough.

Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way people have voices and votes to push back.

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.

It is not good not to have health insurance that leaves the family very vulnerable.

It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

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

I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.

I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

Enforcement isn't about big government or small government. It's about whether government works and who it works for.

the Founding Fathers had called for bankruptcy protection in the Constitution itself, and surely even the banking lobby wouldn't pick a fight with them.

I also learned an essential truth: When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.