One of the Democratic party’s favorite ladies, Elizabeth Warren is famous – or, rather, infamous –for being unafraid of calling everyone on their BS. Start sipping your tea, y’all – here are nine moments when Elizabeth Warren spoke complete truth and we were totally here for it.
“If Wall Street can borrow money at 0.75 percent interest, so can college students. We shouldn’t treat our students like a profit center.”
“Now, Donald Trump says he’ll make America great again … It’s stamped on the front of his goofy hats … When Donald Trump says ‘great,’ I ask: ‘great for who, exactly?’ When Donald says he’ll make America great, he means greater for rich guys just like Donald Trump. That’s who Donald Trump is. … And you have to watch out for him, because he’ll crush you into the dirt.”
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“Credit cards are like snakes – handle ’em long enough, and one will bite you.”
“People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they’re right. The system is rigged.”
“Why are the trade talks secret? You’ll love this answer. Boy, the things you learn on Capitol Hill. I actually have had supporters of the deal say to me, ‘They have to be secret, because if the American people knew what was actually in them, they would be opposed.'”
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“President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges, in science and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make it big and the kid after that and the kid after that. That’s what President Obama believes.”
“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory … Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
“As one of the great philosophers of our time has said, ‘Haters going to hate, hate, hate hate, hate.’ Knowing who you are helps you ‘Shake It Off.’”
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“If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu.”
