Elizabeth Warren Quotes

You cannot have a strong, resilient economy unless you have a strong resilient middle class.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.

I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.

I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends.

What makes this country different is that we have a great middle class.

The best social programs we've had in this country are those that have united the middle class and the poor.

The global economy should not be supported by wage earners. They have to be able to build a future like any other human being.

I think the defining issue of our time is: Does the economic, social, and political system work for the middle class?

From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country.

I want to help the middle class.

We have an economy that's really geared toward rewarding the investor class. What are we doing to make sure that people who want to have a middle-class life are able to keep up?

If it's conservative to say we need to help the middle class, then I'm a conservative.

We need policies that will benefit the middle class because you will not have a strong society without a strong middle class, fundamentally.

Today, families like the one I grew up in still believe in that American dream. But as President Obama says, it's a make-or-break moment for the middle class. Mitt Romney's plans would make things worse.

We need to make sure middle-class people are able to pay the bills. We need to make sure that poor people don't starve. Those are values, too.

In order to invest in our future, we must ensure that we appropriately protect programs that provide skills, services, and education for middle-class Americans rather than providing tax breaks for large corporations.

But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

I don't mind the rich getting richer, but the poor shouldn't be getting poorer, and there should be more people moving into the middle class.

I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our outrage at the top 1 percent is distracting us from the problem that we should really care about: how to create opportunities and ensure a reasonable standard of living for the bottom 20 percent.

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

The middle class is at the heart of our budget problem.

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.

In a good society, those in the middle and at the bottom ought to benefit significantly from economic growth. When the country prospers, everybody should prosper.

I believe America thrives when the middle class thrives.