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Elizabeth Warren
13 quotes
“The American people deserve a Congress that worries less about helping big banks, and more about helping regular people who have been cheated on mortgages, on credit cards, on student loans and on credit reports.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Sen. Elizabeth Warren slams Republicans: Worry less about helping big banks" by Eric W. Dolan, in Raw Story (12 March 2013)
“I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Unwinding, an inner history of the New America (2013), by George Packer, New York: Farrar, Straus, and giroux. p. 345
“Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself, and that is just one of the many reasons he will never be president of the United States, unfortunately just like Hillary Clinton”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Remarks to convention of the American Constitution Society in Washington June 9, 2016 Elizabeth Warren lashes out at Donald Trump: He is a 'thin-skinned, racist bully by Catherine Garcia in The Week magazine online.
“over time realities are bearing down on Israel, demographic realities, births and deaths. What the region looks like.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 22 February 2019
“I am not a person of color, I am not a citizen of a tribe, and I have apologized for confusion I've caused on tribal citizenship, tribal sovereignty, and for any harm that I've caused.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Elizabeth Warren holds town hall at Bowling Acres (December 7, 2019)
“End the filibuster. Codify #RoeVWade with a national law protecting abortion rights. Expand the Supreme Court. Stop this horrifying injustice in its tracks”
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“Banks like S.V.B. — which had become the 16th largest bank in the country before regulators shut it down on Friday — got relief from stringent requirements, basing their claim on the laughable assertion that banks like them weren’t actually “big” and therefore didn’t need strong oversight. ”
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“I fought against these changes. On the eve of the Senate vote in 2018, I warned, “Washington is about to make it easier for the banks to run up risk, make it easier to put our constituents at risk, make it easier to put American families in danger, just so the C.E.O.s of these banks can get a new corporate jet and add another floor to their new corporate headquarters.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[While talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] You are putting American babies’ health at risk, American seniors’ health at risk, all Americans' health at risk and you should resign.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Warren Grills RFK Jr. for Ripping Away Access to COVID-19 Vaccine, Firing CDC Director to Ram Through Dangerous Changes to Vaccines, Warren's official page at the US senate website (September 04, 2025)
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own — nobody. You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers 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. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory — and hire someone to protect against this — because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea. God bless — keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is, you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address in Andover, Massachusetts" (August 2011)
“Today's big tech companies have too much power — too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy. They've bulldozed competition, used our private information for profit, and tilted the playing field against everyone else. With fewer competitors entering the market, the big tech companies do not have to compete as aggressively in key areas like protecting our privacy. And some of these companies have grown so powerful that they can bully cities and states into showering them with massive taxpayer handouts in exchange for doing business, and can act—in the words of [Facebook CEO] Mark Zuckerberg—"more like a government than a traditional company.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Elizabeth Warren Praised for Plan to Break Up Tech Giants, Common Dreams, Andrea Germanos (8 March 08, 2019)
“No one should be mistaken about what unfolded over the past few days in the U.S. banking system: These recent bank failures are the direct result of leaders in Washington weakening the financial rules. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Act to protect consumers and ensure that big banks could never again take down the economy and destroy millions of lives. Wall Street chief executives and their armies of lawyers and lobbyists hated this law. They spent millions trying to defeat it, and, when they lost, spent millions more trying to weaken it. Greg Becker, the chief executive of Silicon Valley Bank, was one of the many high-powered executives who lobbied Congress to weaken the law. In 2018, the big banks won. With support from both parties, President Donald Trump signed a law to roll back critical parts of Dodd-Frank. Regulators, including the Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, then made a bad situation worse, letting financial institutions load up on risk.”
Elizabeth Warren (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish I’d been wrong. But on Friday, S.V.B. executives were busy paying out congratulatory bonuses hours before the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation rushed in to take over their failing institution — leaving countless businesses and nonprofits with accounts at the bank alarmed that they wouldn’t be able to pay their bills and employees. S.V.B. suffered from a toxic mix of risky management and weak supervision. For one, the bank relied on a concentrated group of tech companies with big deposits, driving an abnormally large ratio of uninsured deposits. This meant that weakness in a single sector of the economy could threaten the bank’s stability. Instead of managing that risk, S.V.B. funneled these deposits into long-term bonds, making it hard for the bank to respond to a drawdown. S.V.B. apparently failed to hedge against the obvious risk of rising interest rates. This business model was great for S.V.B.’s short-term profits, which shot up by nearly 40 percent over the last three years — but now we know its cost. S.V.B.’s collapse set off looming contagion that regulators felt forced to stanch, leading to their decision to dissolve Signature Bank. Signature had touted its F.D.I.C. insurance as it whipped up a customer base tilted toward risky cryptocurrency firms. Had Congress and the Federal Reserve not rolled back the stricter oversight, S.V.B. and Signature would have been subject to stronger liquidity and capital requirements to withstand financial shocks. They would have been required to conduct regular stress tests to expose their vulnerabilities and shore up their businesses. But because those requirements were repealed, when an old-fashioned bank run hit S.V.B., the bank couldn’t withstand the pressure — and Signature’s collapse was close behind.”
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