Elizabeth Warren Quotes
When you have a tilted process, you will have a tilted outcome.
She was referring to an International Trade Agreement which is being negotiated with 500 different Americans working on and drafting different components of the agreements. However, 85 percent of the Americans working on the agreement were executives of large multinational corporations of lobbyists for corporations. There were very few workers or representatives of labor organizations or consumer organizations involved with the process. The result she believed would be an agreement tilted toward the interests of the large corporations and the concerns of workers and consumers would be sublimated in the process.
Elizabeth Warren, U. S. Senator (Democrat, MA), Interview, PBS Evening News, May 13, 2015
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Elizabeth Ann Warren is an American politician and former law professor who is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party and regarded as a progressive, Warren has focused on consumer protection, economic opportunity, and the social safety net while in the Senate. Warren was a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, ultimately finishing third.
