Elizabeth Warren Quotes
You need to fix it, Mr. Dudley, or we will get someone who will.
Elizabeth Warren, U. S. Senator (Democrat, MA), Threat to William C. Dudley, the President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, Senate Hearing on Federal Reserve’s Regulatory record with respect to Wall Street and the largest banks, Quoted in New York Times, November 22, 2014
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The reporters were not intimidated. They published not only the story about the joke but the threats of the Chief of Staff who later apologized publicly to minimize the political damage. The quotation is important for two reasons. First it illustrates something that occurs in all countries—political officials intimidating journalists to suppress a story they do not want public. Second, the vibrancy of the Israel freedom of the press, where even the highest ranking general in the nation could not intimidate ordinary journalists. In most counties, the journalists would have been imprisoned, and possible tortured and killed if they crossed such a powerful man. In many democracies, the journalists would have been fired.
He was famous for his comical impressions of Richard M. Nixon.
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.
