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Elizabeth Warren

Sunday 7th of December 2025

2007 financial crisis It wasn't a natural disaster. The bubble was man-made.  Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
2008 financial crisis Trump's rise, like Warren's and Sander's, wouldn't have happened without the 2008 financial crisis. They were all part of the political backlash that followed the crisis-like aftershocks from an earthquake. One thing Trump's victory made clear was that the Obama's administration's response was more costly than initially assumed. The decision to forgo what Tim Geithner called “Old Testament justice" and concentrate the government's firepower on recapitalizing disgraced banks might have kept the economy afloat, but it also bred a deep resentment. Trump won because he consciously evoked the disgust people had come to feel toward Wall Street and Washington and made himself into an instrument to strike back. Joshua Green, in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
2018 midterm elections In the 2018 elections, for example, for every $1,000 contributed to political campaigns by unions and worker groups, businesses contributed about $16,000. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential primaries For just a moment, it was just this little girl and me, standing in a beautiful, sun- drenched field with lots of laughing and talking in the background. She planted her feet, put her hands on her narrow hips, and looked straight into my eyes. In her dead serious, I'm-warning-you tone, she said: “You better win. I've been waiting for a girl president since … since … since kindergarten! Elizabeth Warren, in Persist , on an encounter with a “little girl of about eight or nine” at a campaign event in a field in St. Paul, Minnesota © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential primaries It is said that Ms Warren's ideas would make life harder for finance, a warning that threatens to cost her literally tens of voters. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, October 31, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential primaries Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobucher and I all had better campaign win-loss records than any of the leading men. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Bank regulators When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? Elizabeth Warren to bank regulators, at her 1st Banking Committee hearing (2013) © 2019 Kwiple.com
Bankers Your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees, who dont't have the money for a fancy PR firm to defend themselves. It's gutless leadership. The only way that Wall Street will change is if executives face jail time when they preside over massive frauds. Elizabeth Warren to John Stumpf, chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo, who the Senate Banking Committee was questioning about nearly 2,000,000 fee-generating accounts and credit cards opened without customers' knowledge, for which Stumpf was “deeply sorry,” while not promising to claw back compensation paid to any executive in the chain of command © 2016 Kwiple.com
Budgets Show me yur budget and I'll know your values. At the federal level in 2020, American taxpayers put $72 billion into educating our children, less than 2 percent of all federal spending. That's soup to nuts, everything from preschool grants to funding for special education to helping our kids make it through college. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Congress Some people think, Congress? You mean we should ask Congress to do something that may be politically hard because a relatively small, intense minority doesn't like it? Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Democrats In targeting just the richest [1% for tax increases], Democrats rather imply that a welfare state is only worthwhile insofar as someone else pays for it. It is not an inherent good. It is not a nation's binding agent. In this sense, the Sanders and especially the Warren platform is a tacit concession to the Republican view of the world, with tax as a burden, not what the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes defined as “what we pay for civilised society.” The Democratic appeal is less to Nordic universalism and solidarity than to the noblesse oblige of a remote overclass who will not miss the money. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, Feb. 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Democracy  When corporations get so big that they can start to squeeze the government, then democracy no longer works. Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Democrats I don't believe in litmus tests for Democrats. I'm not voting anybody off the island. Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Democrats The question is always, 'How are you gonna pay for that?' We never sound credible as Democrats on that, and it shrinks up our ambitions. So our ambitions keep narrowing. 'Well, can we have just a little bit of child care? How about a tiny bit? Could we give a little help on student loans?' Let me make this pitch: Who's gonna show up to reduce student loan debt by 2%? I'm serious! Who's gonna show up on our side to fight for that? Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Fox News Funny how, according to my brother, Fox could be so truthful about everything else and lie about the one person he actually knew. Yeah, real funny. Elizabeth Warren, Persist, on Fox News' coverage of her during the 2020 presidential primaries © 2021 Kwiple.com
Fox News A hate-for-profit racket. Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment If he were anyone other than the president of the United States, he would be in handcuffs and indicted. Elizabeth Warren, May, 2019, after reading the Mueller report © 2019 Kwiple.com
Impeachment There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution. … If there's going to be accountability, that accountability has to come from Congress. … If there are people in the House or the Senate who want to say that's what a president can do when the president is being investigated for his own wrongdoings or when a foreign government attacks our country, then they should have to take that vote and live with it for the rest of their lives. Elizabeth Warren, CNN Democratic Presidential Town Hall, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 22, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Military spending [T]he 2020 federal budget for  the Department of Defence is $738 billion. Homeland Security soaked up $47.7 billion;  the State Department got $41 billion. By comparison, the appropriation for the  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020 was $7.7 billion. The federal budget for planning and enforcing our environmental regulations was $9.4 billion. In other words, for every dollar it spends on defense, the federal government spends a little over two cents on public health and protecting the earth combined. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money If your ears are stuffed with money, it's hard to hear. Elizabeth Warren, CNN Presidential Town Hall, Manchester, New Hampshire, April 22, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Money in politics He [Trump] made Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs, his top economic advisor. On his way out of Goldman, Cohn received the promise of a staggering $285 million from the firm. Nice, but the money came with a catch: Cohn wouldn't get the big bucks if he  joined the Red Cross or started teaching in a rural elementary school or just retired. Nope: he could only collect this boatload of money if he left the firm to work in the White House. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money in politics Over the past decade, just ten people — ten donors and their spouses — have injected more than $1.1 billion into super PACs and other organizations that support their favored candidates. Ten families have a voice in Washington that drowns out millions of families who also need government on their side. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Money in politics When I ran for office that year, there were three main models of funding a Senate race: (1) ask lots of rich people and PACs for money; (2) hope that a super PAC would support you; (3) finance your campaign with your own personal fortune. We decided to try a fourth model: launch an online small-dollar fundraising effort. Elizabeth Warren, Persist on her 2012 run for the Senate, which she won © 2021 Kwiple.com
Monopoly It is time to do what Teddy Roosevelt did: pick up the antitrust stick again. Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Monopoly Today, in America, competition is dying. Consolidation and concentration are on the rise in sector after sector. Concentration threatens our markets, threatens our economy, and threatens our democracy. Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Plans And that's both the beauty and the beast of plans: when they are detailed, they force transparency into the debate. Good plans or bad plans, they all start with a set of facts — or at least the facts the planner is working with. Next they provide a statement of the problem, followed by a plan to fix it. But a complex problem usually means that a lot of different factors are in play, so a plan for solving the problem introduces a lot of complexity. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Plans I really did have a lot of plans and that seemed right to me. If you decided to run for president and wanted to get a ton of things done, wouldn't you need a lot of plans? And they couldn't be wing-and-a-prayer plans. They had to be serious plans. Detailed plans. Plans with enough information that anyone could see the costs, the trade-offs, and the values that they embodied. Elizabeth Warren, Persist, on her run in the 2020 presidential primaries © 2021 Kwiple.com
Politics When you're in a knife fight, you don't ask to be liked. Caroline Fraser, New York Review of Books, March 12, 2020, writing about Elizabeth Warren © 2020 Kwiple.com
Poverty [T]he single best predictor of going broke in America was [found by analyzing data] to be a woman with a child. Not a woman alone. Not a couple with no kids. Not elderly or African American or Latina. One kid. Two kids. It didn't matter. The strongest  predictor was to be a woman with at least one child. Elizabeth Warren, Persist  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Schools The heavy reliance on state and local funding means that our country's nonwhite school districts get about $23 billion less every year than white school districts, even though they serve the same number of children. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie For many people, they may not know the details of my plans, but they'e sure glad to know that the plans are there – that somebody has worked through this that they can trust, and who has their interests at heart, and will be in that fight and win that fight. Elizabeth Warren © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I bring the pieces of who I am to every battle. I'm a mother and a teacher. I'm a planner, a fighter, and a learner. Together, these pieces furnish the foundation for everything I do. Elizabeth Warren, in Persist  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie  I'm not interested in waiting four decades for the day when women don't pay a penalty for being a woman. Elizabeth Warren, Persist  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Selfie  That minimum wage job saved our house – and more important, it saved our family. Elizabeth Warren, on her mother's first job, at Sears, after her father could no longer work due to a heart attack © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Many people love Al  because he's funny. I love him because he's wonky. Al Franken portrayed by Elizabeth Warren © 2017 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Warren was the first love interest of the [Democratic] party's grassroots since Obama. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Joshua Green in Rebels © 2024 Kwiple.com
Snapshot She's a three-syllable woman in a one-syllable country. A lot of Americans see a woman with a bunch of plans who seems to know everything making demands for change and they think, I already have a wife. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Bill Maher © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I hit her too hard, too early. Now it looks like she's finished. Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Donald Trump, March, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Pocohontas Elizabeth Warren portrayed by Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Taxes Today, the top one-tenth of one percent in America pay total taxes of about 3.2 percent of their net worth every year. Meanwhile, the 99.9 percent pay about 7.2 percent. Think about that: Collectively, all those teachers and waitresses and factory workers and computer programmers and small businesss owners are paying total taxes at more than double the rate of the thinnest slice at the top. For the four hundred richest households in America, the numbers are even more obscene. They pay taxes at a lower rate than any other group — including the poorest 10 percent of all Americans. Elizabeth Warren, Persist  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Teachers Back in the 1960s, public school teachers, on average, earned nearly 15 percent more than other people with similar educations. Now, even when health and retirement benefits are folded in, these teachers are making less than others with similar educations — about 10 percent less. Elizabeth Warren, Persist  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say This is the fucking American Dream she is shitting on. Leon Cooperman, billionaire convicted of insider trading, responding to Elizabeth Warren's proposed two/three cent wealth tax on every dollar over $50 million/$1 billion in wealth © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Visions A big vision without a plan is just a fantasy. Exciting, but little more than a wisp that eventually blows away. Elizabeth Warren, Persist © 2021 Kwiple.com