Enough is enough. Washington already works really well for the billionaires and the big corporations and the lawyers and the lobbyists, but what about the families who lost their homes or their jobs or their retirement savings the last time Citi bet big on derivatives and lost?

Elizabeth Warren

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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

fighting games winning

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

Elizabeth Warren

born stories native-american

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

occupy-movement police fire

It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.

Elizabeth Warren

simple together ideas

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

Elizabeth Warren

menus tables courage

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

focus want trying

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

fighting winning reality

Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.

Elizabeth Warren

regret space heart

We don't win what we don't fight for.

Elizabeth Warren

fighting winning action

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

firefighter political teacher

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

independent cutting daughter

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

doors lying years

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

dream country people

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

should reason sometimes

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

money nurse islands

I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.

Elizabeth Warren

bus body ideas

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

air rivers thinking

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

home sleep night

It`s one thing for Hillary Clinton to adopt some anti-Wall Street language to try to appeal to progressives.

Elizabeth Warren

wall language trying

There is an ugly side to Donald Trump that we all have to stop and think about what's going on here.

Elizabeth Warren

ugly sides thinking