Elizabeth Warren Quotes

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you are not rich, blame yourself!

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.

l had a job, and if you had a job in the depression you were rich.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

People who didn't know the depression just don't know what being poor means.

The middle class is the group in this country that has been taken for a ride.

Never trust an economist with your job. Learn about economics yourself. And make up your own mind about what might protect your job-and what might destroy it.

The economy will bump along, with most of us struggling to make ends meet, while the same people who nearly wrecked the economy altogether will be making more money than they can count.

Economic problems have no sharp edges. They shade off imperceptibly into politics, sociology, and ethics. Indeed, it is hardly an exaggeration to say that the ultimate answer to every economic problem lies in some other field.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

I used to turn in, like, 20 money orders to pay my rent - $20 for this one, $30 for this one. I didn't have a checking account.

Poverty is not a lack of character. Poverty is a lack of cash.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Economy, the poor man's mint.

I have never forgotten how the deprivation of work erodes human beings, those not working and those related to them. And from that time on, I loathed an economic that could put a huge part of its workforce on the streets with no compunction.

If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

Nobody who works 40 hours a week should be living in poverty.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

The worst thing about poverty is not the actual living of it, but the shame of it.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.