We're not here today because of famous arches or famous men. In fact, we're not here because of men at all, we're here because of some hardworking women. Elizabeth Warren More Quotes by Elizabeth Warren More Quotes From Elizabeth Warren It's pretty much how we get anything added to the curriculum. When parents said children needed to be computer literate, the schools started responding. The same thing is true of basic financial literacy. Elizabeth Warren parentchildrenschool It's critical to level the playing field, to make prices and risks clear up front, so when someone signs on for a student loan or a mortgage or a credit card, they know the tricks and traps hidden in the fine print. That's why the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been working on a new financial aid shopping sheet. A shorter, two-page credit card agreement, a simpler mortgage disclosure form. All those are aimed toward helping people understand the basic bargain. Elizabeth Warren shoppingagreementtwo Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden. Elizabeth Warren creditriskresponsibility That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college. Elizabeth Warren importantcollegepeople 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. Elizabeth Warren carpeopleneeds Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards, mortgages and other financial products. The result is that consumers can't make direct product comparisons, markets aren't competitive, and costs are higher. If the playing field is leveled and the broken market fixed, a lot more money will stay in the pockets of millions of hard-working families. That's real stimulus - money to families, without increasing our national debt. Elizabeth Warren hard-workbrokenreal Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And we need more accountability for how schools spend federal dollars. Elizabeth Warren brokencollegeschool 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. Elizabeth Warren issuestalkingcountry Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people. Elizabeth Warren corporationsguypeople My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right. Elizabeth Warren cashmothersaid Say good-bye to Dodd-Frank and all of the financial reforms and efforts to try to rein in Wall Street. Just say good-bye 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 wallbyemean My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack. Elizabeth Warren familymoneymother 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. Elizabeth Warren byewingspeople The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's not going to happen, we don't have to worry about that. Elizabeth Warren saying-noworrylooks Bernie Sanders brought millions of people into the political process. Elizabeth Warren politicalprocesspeople Student loan debt is crushing young people. And so they're not doing the things we would expect them to do. They're not moving out of their parents' homes in as big a numbers, they're not saving up money for down payments, they're not buying homes or cars or starting small businesses or doing any of the things that help move this economy forward. Elizabeth Warren crushhomemoving My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully. Elizabeth Warren creditadvicecards 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 dadmomcollege I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.'' Matthew 25:40. Elizabeth Warren sundaychurchschool 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 crushpeopleneeds
