Elizabeth Warren Quotes

Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had, America is not broke. Not by a long shot. The country is awash in wealth and cash.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

We tax the people in Watts to send the children of Beverly Hills to college.

The decision involves nothing less than a surrender of the taxing power to the moneyed class

Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

Surely we can afford to make a distinction between the people whose only capital is their mettle and physical energy and the people whose income is derived from investments. Such a distinction would mean much to millions of American workers and would be an added inspiration to the man who must provide a competence during his few productive years to care for himself and his family when his earnings capacity is at an end.

The Polish society is not composed solely of entrepreneurial and energetic young people. I can't image pensioners who get 600 zlotkies or 800 zlotkies a month getting even less than that. That would be immoral.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

It's the middle class; it's middle Ireland, and it's a group of people who often feel that they contribute a lot to the economy and a lot to society, but maybe they don't get as much back for it as they should.

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Income inequity has to be addressed.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.

Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.

The thing about Occupy is that the sentiment the movement embodies is timeless: Don't be greedy, share.

The economy is not governed with the bottom half in mind.