If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Who is Antonio Weiss? He's the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If you have a choice between buying something and paying down your credit card, pay down your credit card. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We need to hold Wall Street accountable for issuing the kinds of deceptive loans that nearly brought our economy to its knees… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Accountability for the largest financial institutions on Wall Street is the bedrock for a strong economy. Hard-working families and honest businesses cannot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The people on Wall Street broke this country, and they did it one lousy mortgage at a time. It happened more than… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet -… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The financial collapse of 2008 got its start with predatory mortgages, that weren’t sold by community banks and credit unions, they were… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I do not understand how it is that financial institutions could think that they could take taxpayer money and then turn around… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We [US government] have used our taxpayer dollars not only to subsidize these banks but also to subsidize the creditors of those… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
The broken consumer credit market had to be repaired by making sure that consumers had the right information and could use it… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“Starting in 1792 with George Washington, there were financial crises every ten to fifteen years. Panics, bank runs, credit freezes, crashes, depressions.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“This crisis didn’t have to happen. America had a boom-and-bust cycle from the 1790s to the 1930s, with a financial panic every… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“By late 2008, one out of every five mortgage holders owed more than their homes were worth. The banks called in the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Once you've gotten your money in balance, you know how much you have to spend on things that are just fun. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“The single best predictor that a family would go bankrupt was if they had a child.” — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I can remember riding in the car with [my daughter] Amelia, when she was very small, and we'd talk about money the same way… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
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… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that people say about Hillary Clinton. But nobody says that she doesn't know how to throw a punch. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone went the polls and said, 'I am casting my vote to make sure that Wall Street has better chances to… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
With post offices and postal workers already on the ground, USPS could partner with banks to make a critical difference for millions of Americans… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot. — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image