Elizabeth Warren
The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.
When billionaire car dealers or manufacturers pay for ambassadorships, at least they pay with money earned by selling something of value.
I made it real clear to the business community - if your plan for innovation is to trick people, is to fool them, is not to tell them the truth about the price, then you're right: I'm going to be right in the way.
If your plan is to put a product out there that people can see and understand, then by golly, we're going to get along just fine.
Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big celebration for us. It's a day when we're kind of the whole world's city there.
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers.
When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.
Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.Collection: Courage
The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.Collection: Games
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.Collection: Fighting
Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.Collection: Native American
Balancing your money is the key to having enough.Collection: Keys
Keep a little space in your heart for the improbable. You won't regret it.Collection: Regret
It's a simple idea: We all do better when we work together and invest in our future.Collection: Simple
We don't win what we don't fight for.Collection: Fighting
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.Collection: Focus
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.Collection: Dream
I get the reason that you should be willing to negotiate sometimes. But you also ought to be willing to throw a punch.Collection: Sometimes
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.Collection: Fighting
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 everCollection: Daughter
Israel has the right to shell Palestinian hospitals and schools out of self defense.Collection: School
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Lying
If Scott Walker sees 100,000 teachers & firefighters as his enemies, maybe it's time we take a closer look at his friends.Collection: Teacher
It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.Collection: Kids
If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Thinking
When you have no real power, go public - really public. The public is where the real power is.Collection: Real
I hope Hillary Clinton runs for president.Collection: Running
My advice is to treat [credit cards] like what they are: little plastic grenades that must be handled very carefully.Collection: Advice
The administration [ of Barack Obama ]says I`m wrong, that there`s nothing to worry about. They say the deal is nearly done, and they are making a lot of promises about how the deal will affect workers, the environment and human rights - promises. But people like you can`t see the actual deal.Collection: Rights
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Agreement
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.Collection: Nsa
We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.Collection: Financial Education
All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer.Collection: House
If you want to find out how strong a company's ethics are, don't listen to what its people say, watch what they do.Collection: Strong
There's a limit here. This is how far we go and we don't go further. And I also think by talking about [gifts] it that way, it avoids the unspoken idea that money is the expression of love.Collection: Thinking
There's a lot of research on the shift in who deals with money when families get in trouble. In good times, husbands handle the family's finances about 80 percent of the time. But when times turn sour and families start dealing with creditors and managing unpayable bills, women take more active roles.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Wings
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!Collection: Wall
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.Collection: Mom