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

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Elizabeth Warren
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 22
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Oklahoma City
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Elizabeth Ann Warren
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Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history.
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I once had half a cup [of coffee], twenty years ago, and I'm still working it off.
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Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.
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I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.
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Nobody's safe. Health insurance? That didn't protect 1 million Americans who were financially ruined by illness or medical bills last year.
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Get your money in balance. One rule of thumb is 50/30/20. Spend about 50% of your money on must-haves - things like rent, car payments - and about 30% on wants, while 20% should go toward savings and paying down debt.
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Сount dollars, not pennies. Look at the big-ticket items, in your budget.
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We have to rethink how to teach financial education in the 21st century.
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It's powerfully important that our kids get an education in personal finance.
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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
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It is not the job of the Department of Education to maximize profits for the government at the cost of squeezing students who are struggling to get an education.
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The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!
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You know, the old version was about balancing a checkbook. The new version is about the risks of debt, which is so much more widely available. So I think it's important that we design relevant financial literacy courses, and teach them starting early in grade school.
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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.
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I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.
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What do the Republicans say? Donald Trump? They say they're just going to roll back the Dodd-Frank regulations. They want to undermine the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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We don't win what we don't fight for.
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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.
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No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.
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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.
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