Elizabeth Warren Quotes

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Any of the social changes in American history are because people thought there was injustice. We have to show that this corporate welfare and cronyism is unjust - and that it's not only rigging the system so people get wealthy who don't deserve to get wealthy.

The Tea Party is but one manifestation of a widening perception that the game is rigged in favor of the rich and powerful.

You can make too much of inequality because there is always so much of it.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solution to large collective problems, because those problems [to the have’s] no longer seem very collective. Inequality undermines democracy/

High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.

We have, in the E.U., a market rigged in favour of the rich and stacked against the poor, and I think that's wrong.

After years of globalisation, disaffected populations have lost confidence that the system is fair.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality, social disparities, the irresponsible concentration of power in relatively few hands, and a growing machinery of social and civil death.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.

Unlike the Tea Party, who see themselves as the customers of government, people in the Occupy Wall Street movement understand that we are the government. Stated most simply, we are trying to run a 21st-century society on a 13th-century economic operating system. It just doesn't work.

Reckless capitalism kills black people.

A lot of people are deeply dissatisfied by the diminishing control they have over their lives, because of the way our system of government is set up, to cater to the powerful, cater to the wealthy, cater to the corporations, and not to the individual American citizen.

We live in a very dysfunctional society, and this is a very, very dysfunctional Administration.

I believe that cronyism is nothing more than welfare for the rich and powerful, and should be abolished.

Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.

America's middle class is getting hammered, and Washington is rigged to work for the big guy.

The biggest problem is that the rich people paying the bills do not share the same goals as the poor people they are trying to help. The wealthy have weak incentives to get the right amount of the right thing to those who need it; the poor are in no position to complain if they don’t.

The American People got fucked. Then tell 'em the American Family got fucked.

If this country ever had a military of the poor, it no longer does.

Why should there be such abject poverty?

Poor whites have been pitted against poor blacks to assuage the conscience of the affluent.