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Other countries around the world make employees and retirees first in the priority. For example, in Mexico, the bankruptcy laws say if a company wants to go bankrupt... obligations to employees and retirees will have a first priority. That has an effect on every negotiation that takes place with every company in Mexico.
Elizabeth Warren
Obligations
World
Will
Example
First
Employees
Every
Other
Other Countries
Say
Negotiation
Laws
Takes
Retirees
Countries
For Example
Make
Around
Priority
Go
Effect
Mexico
Bankrupt
Bankruptcy
Wants
Place
Company
Everyone would like the world always to be in bubble times. But that doesn't happen.
Elizabeth Warren
World
Everyone
Would
Bubble
Like
Always
Times
Happen
I was in a high school where everybody was a click better off.
Elizabeth Warren
Better
School
Everybody
High
High School
Better Off
Click
Off
Where
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.
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Good Things
Power
Reading
Understanding
Back
Those
Consumers
Puts
Mortgages
Check
Contracts
Get
Hands
Used
Agreements
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Things
The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.
Elizabeth Warren
Service
History
People
Complicated
Long
Half
Postal
Postal Service
More
Employing
Huge
Than
Million
Million People
It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.
Elizabeth Warren
Health
Good
Family
Vulnerable
Health Insurance
Insurance
Leaves
Very
We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.
Elizabeth Warren
Success
Game
Celebrate
American
Just
Want
Rigged
Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.
Elizabeth Warren
Class
Mine
Has-Been
Consumer
Been
Debt
Selling
Families
Gold
Banking
Middle
Middle Class
I don't want to go to Washington to be a co-sponsor of some bland little bill nobody cares about. I don't want to go to Washington to get my name on something that makes small change at the margin.
Elizabeth Warren
Change
Nobody Cares
Cares
Some
About
Something
Small
Bland
Nobody
Name
Makes
Go
Get
Want
Little
Bill
Washington
Margin
I hear all this, you know, 'Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.' No. There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own - nobody.
Elizabeth Warren
You
Class
Country
Whatever
Own
Rich
Class Warfare
Nobody
Know
Well
Got
Hear
His
Warfare
Who
I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.
Elizabeth Warren
Fight
Know
Am
Families
Washington
Here
Hardworking
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
Elizabeth Warren
Struggle
Financial
Loan
Too
Meet
Those
Financial Services
Must
Tricks
Fine
Fine Print
Rates
More
Rely
Most
Make
Contend
Print
Families
Than
Often
Buried
Ends
Interest
Interest Rates
Them
Products
Who
Traps
Ever
Services
Need
There's a lot of talk coming from Citigroup about how Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. Let me say this to anyone who is listening at Citi: I agree with you. Dodd-Frank isn't perfect. It should have broken you into pieces.
Elizabeth Warren
Me
Broken
You
Listening
Say
About
Perfect
Pieces
Talk
Dodd-Frank
How
Coming
Lot
Anyone
Should
Who
Agree
And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.
Elizabeth Warren
Future
Together
Opportunity
Build
Jobs
More
Economy
Fairness
How
Debt
Root
Less
Grow
I learned something important in my race against Senator Brown: voters want political leaders who are willing to break the partisan gridlock. They want fewer closed-door roadblocks and more public votes on legislation that could improve their lives.
Elizabeth Warren
Political
Important
Willing
Brown
Something
More
Could
Roadblocks
Leaders
Voters
Votes
Partisan
Learned
Political Leaders
Improve
Senator
Fewer
Legislation
Want
Break
Against
Public
Race
Who
Lives
Even families with health insurance are quite vulnerable to a severe economic reversal if someone gets sick.
Elizabeth Warren
Health
Sick
Severe
Someone
Economic
Vulnerable
Health Insurance
Insurance
Reversal
Families
Gets
Quite
Even
We can't go out and tell ourselves we've done good if we haven't.
Elizabeth Warren
Good
Ourselves
Out
Tell
Go
Done
If large financial institutions can break the law and accumulate million in profits - and, if they get caught, settle by paying out of those profits - they do not have much incentive to follow the law.
Elizabeth Warren
Financial
Law
Settle
Those
Out
Follow
Institutions
Caught
Accumulate
Get
Break
Much
Incentive
Paying
Large
Million
Profits
Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.
Elizabeth Warren
Problems
Before
Beat
Spreads
Stop
Cops
Damage
We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.
Elizabeth Warren
Time
Pay
Down
Back
Align
Those
Jobs
Degrees
Able
Colleges
Costs
Area
Students
Get
Graduate
Going
Graduate Students
Where
Incentive
Incentives
Keep
Need
Loans
When I first started talking about running for office, a lot of people said to me, 'Don't let the consultants change you,' and I'd always assured them that I wouldn't allow it to happen. But like it or not, I had to change. Not because of a consultant, but because I started to understand the cost of a stupid mistake.
Elizabeth Warren
Me
You
Change
Mistake
People
First
Stupid
Assured
Running
About
Cost
Consultant
Consultants
Allow
Had
Like
Talking
Because
Understand
Said
Always
Lot
Office
Happen
Them
Started
If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.
Elizabeth Warren
Federal
Federal Reserve
Budget
Up
Subsidies
Show
Reserve
Loans
You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
Elizabeth Warren
Me
You
Hurt
Say
Easy
See
Scary
Rate
Lay
Could
Highest
Clear
Terms
Read
Provision
Front
Oh
Anyone
Flat
Them
Really
Pages
Whole
Agreement
Credit
Card
Credit Card
Credit Cards
Four
Cards
Two
It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.
Elizabeth Warren
Great
Me
Happy
School
Back
High
High School
About
Talk
Make
How
Go
I have to prove myself to everybody.
Elizabeth Warren
Myself
Everybody
Prove
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard.
Elizabeth Warren
Financial
Giant
He
Investment
Head
Global
Banking
Who
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