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I have to prove myself to everybody.
I think Hillary Clinton is terrific.
Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency.
President Obama believes in a level playing field.
A pension is nothing more than deferred compensation.
A good education is a foundation for a better future.
I don't want happy-face conclusions. I want the truth.
We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.
Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.
We need a new model: If you can't explain it, you can't sell it.
I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.
I'm willing to throw my body in front of the bus to stop bad ideas.
If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
In the 1960s, a minimum wage job would keep a family of three afloat.
You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.
I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.
Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.
I had to make a choice - recede into the academic world, or wade into politics.
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.
I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.
Bankruptcy exposes the economic vulnerability and insecurity of middle class women.
It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.
When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.
I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.
Writing laws based on an abstract theory, rather than reality, is a dangerous undertaking.
America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.
I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.
For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.
The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.
There are very few people at the decision-making table to argue for minimum-wage workers. Very few people.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.
How do you think we build a future? I think we build it by investing in our kids and investing in education.
I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
Pundits talk about 'populist rage' as a way to trivialize the anger and fear coursing through the middle class.
You can put handcuffs on people who push the envelope. When they break the law, they deserve to have handcuffs.