Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third. These Elizabeth Warren quotes will motivate you.
Best Elizabeth Warren Quotes
- “It’s better to fight because if you don’t fight, you can’t win. Besides, even when you don’t win, you can change the game.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “It’s a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won’t regret it.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “It’s so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“We don’t win what we don’t fight for.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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
- “This country isn’t working for working people. It’s working only for people at the top. That’s not the American dream. That’s the American nightmare.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self-defense.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“It’s powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women’s access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “In a democracy, hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can’t otherwise win their fights through elections, can’t win their fights in Congress, can’t win their fights for the Presidency, and can’t win their fights in Courts. For this right-wing minority, hostage-taking is all they have left – a last gasp of those who cannot cope with the realities of our democracy.” ~ Elizabeth Warren Quotes
- “I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“I’m willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it’s time we take a closer look at his friends.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Americans are fighters. We’re tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one – no one can stop us.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters – people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them – not one – stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“Money is bounded; we only have so much of it. Love goes on forever.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were sold by fly by night mortgage brokers who had almost zero federal oversight and then the big banks looked over, saw the profit potential and they wanted it bad. So they jumped in and sold millions of these terrible mortgages while the bank regulators just looked the other way.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “We will fight back against attacks on Latinos, on African-Americans, on women, on Muslims, on immigrants, on disabled Americans, on everyone. Whether Donald Trump sits in a glass tower or sits in the White House, we will not give an inch on this. Not now, not ever.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“Donald Trump is a threat to who we are as a people.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Some of the largest financial institutions can build a profit model on tricking people.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “A lot of people think that regulations bring higher costs, but regulation is also about making sure that someone doesn’t get to beat out the competition because they’re dumping filth in the river or spewing poisons in the air.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Americans understand that the game is rigged, and they’ve had enough of it. They’re ready to fight back. They want a Washington that works for them, i think that people are getting more engaged, politically, and they’re seeing through a lot of the rhetoric that politicians have been throwing out there for a long time. They want to see some real change, and I think that’s what we need to work on.” ~ Elizabeth Warren Quotes
- “You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“Donald Trump doesn’t care who gets hurt, as long as he makes a profit off it.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I’m going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what’s going on here.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. People have hearts, they have kids, they get jobs, they get sick, they cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die. And that matters. That matters because we don’t run this country for corporations, we run it for people.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “As a Democrat, one of the things that frustrates me the most is there are a lot of times we just don’t get in the fight. We ask pretty please if we can have things or we make the argument for why it is the best thing to do, and then wait patiently for the other side to agree to come along. We negotiate. We start our opening position by negotiating.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot survive in a world where the rules don’t keep the marketplace honest.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it’s important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I don’t like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“I’m proud of my Native American heritage.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “We’re going to make sure that the people who run for office and get elected are the ones who are going to work for the American people.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Goals work. Pick one debt, and then put every dime into paying down that one debt. Once that debt is paid off, start paying down the next debt. Pretty soon it’s time to move from paying debt to building savings.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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
- “My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“When you have no real power, go public – really public. The public is where the real power is.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “I’m still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can’t pay a doctor’s bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Pundits talk about ‘populist rage’ as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.” ~ Elizabeth Warren Quotes
- “The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America’s middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“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
- “The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Get your money in balance. One rule of thumb is 50/30/20. Spend about 50% of your money on must-haves – things like rent, car payments – and about 30% on wants, while 20% should go toward savings and paying down debt.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“We’re Americans. We celebrate success. We just don’t want the game to be rigged.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water – nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits – not cutting them.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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
- “Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans’ agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won’t do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “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.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
- “Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say goodbye to it. That means we can go where Wall Street gets to call the shots again. We saw how that worked out in 2008.” ~ Elizabeth Warren
