Elizabeth Warren Quotes

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

Nobody talks about the poor. Everybody talks about the middle class and just kinda want to ignore that the poor exist. And you cannot ignore that they exist if you want to help them.

You and I can be busy, and we take a vacation from work. You can't take a break from being poor. You can't say, 'Hey I've had enough of worrying about money, I'm just going to be rich for a couple of weeks until I've recovered.'

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

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

The Clinton administration cared a lot about the middle class and the poor. But it also cared a lot - too much, in retrospect - about the rich.

In middle-income countries, inequality becomes a problem because you can see there is a layer of people who are doing well, while the poor are still stuck there.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

I could actually care less about the poor. We have some living near us, and pee-yew. They are always coming and going to their three or four jobs at all hours of the day and night. Annoying!

Giving a poor person money keeps them poor.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

Elites always tell poor people, “Work hard and play by the rules.”

Never forget that there are rich people in poor countries and poor people in rich countries.

The central issue of our time remains the fact that the rich are getting richer and the poor, poorer.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

The poor will never cease out of the land.

The association of poverty with progress is the enigma of our times.

If you are poor today, you will always be poor. Only the rich now acquire riches.

Poverty divide not only nations but societies within nations.

The middle class serves as a bridge between the haves and the have-nots. If it goes, so goes political stability.

The middle class of this country, our historic backbone and our best hope for a strong society in the future, is losing its place at the table.