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Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American academic and politician, who is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party.

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I'm really shocked at the notion that anyone thinks I'm punitive, look, I don't have a beef with billionaires.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 15 hours ago Politics

My view on this and what I have committed to is, costs will go down for hard-working middle-class families.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 15 hours ago Politics

I am deeply grateful to President Obama.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 15 hours ago Politics

Look, I don't just want to push Donald Trump off Twitter, I want to push Donald Trump out of the White House.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 17 hours ago Top News

It's refreshing for a politician to say he'll give people what they need without telling them how to use it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 2 days ago Politics

The president is asking for help against one of his political rivals and asking a foreign government for a thing of value for himself personally.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 2 days ago Top News

I am Elizabeth Warren, and I deserve to be here, i am tired. I am so tired... It's not just my black trans women, it's my black trans brothers too. And I'm going to say what I'm going to say.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 4 days ago Politics

They either have to say theres a new set of rules for President Trump -- andthere will be for President Warren -- she will be able to declare national emergencies and take away Congress-appropriated and approved funds from militaryconstruction projects to spend them on her pet projects... or theyre going to say this is a problem.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 12 days ago Latest Headlines

The transcript from one of my QAs a few months ago just got published online, and even though it was meant to be internal rather than public, now that it's out there, you can check it out if you're interested in seeing an unfiltered version of what I'm thinking and telling employees on a bunch of topics.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 14 days ago Technology

Otis was the calm. You can do this. We'll get through this together, i would often brush Otis while I'd be on a phone call.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 14 days ago Politics

It is the constitutional responsibility of Congress to hold this man accountable.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 20 days ago Top News

I'll never let anyone tell me that anything is too hard, too hard to stand up to Wall Street ? Too hard to protect consumers from cheating banks ? Too hard to beat a popular Republican incumbent senator as a first-time candidate ? Not too hard.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

I'm Elizabeth Warren. I know what's wrong. I know how to fix it. And I'll fight to get it done.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 21 days ago Politics

GM is demonstrating that it has no loyalty to the workers of America or to the people of America, their only loyalty is to their own bottom line and if they can save a nickel by moving a job to Mexico or to Asia or to anywhere else on this planet, they will do it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 22 days ago Top News

It is time for us to call out this illegal behavior and start impeachment proceedings right now.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 24 days ago Politics

Auto workers deserve good wages, comprehensive benefits, and economic security.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 25 days ago Business

You know, the lines keep getting longer. That's a good thing, i put on my sneakers and a cooler sweater so that we can keep doing it last night, but it was terrific. It was being able to say heart-to-heart to people who came in from all around the area and who really are in this fight, who believe that we're going to get together, we're going to fight hard and we're going to change this country.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 28 days ago Politics

Climate change. Gun safety. Health care. On the face of it, these three are totally different issues. But despite our being the strongest and wealthiest country in the history of the world, our democracy is paralyzed, and why ? Because giant corporations have bought off our government.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 29 days ago Politics

We're not here today because of famous arches or famous men. In fact, we're not here because of men at all, we're here because of some hardworking women.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 29 days ago Politics

Costs are going to go up for wealthier individuals and costs are going to go up for giant corporations, but for hardworking families across this country, costs are going to go down, and that's how it should work under Medicare for All in our healthcare system.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Obviously he didn't pull the trigger, but he's certainly been tweeting out the ammunition.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I actually never met anybody who likes their health insurance company. I've met people who like their doctors.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 1 month ago Top News

Maybe it takes a woman of a certain age to say,' I know how to fight, I know how to win and that's exactly what I'm going to do,'.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Make no bones about it: We need to defeatDonald Trump, but I think its important for our countrys sake and our future that the voters in this country are the ones who do that, and Ibelieve that we will.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 1 month ago Politics

Oh, come on. Give me a break, look, there are a lot of ways that we try to change our energy consumption, and our pollution, and God bless all of those ways.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

Look, there are a lot of ways that we try to change our energy consumption, and our pollution, and God bless all of those ways.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 1 month ago Politics

The 1994 crime bill's mandatory minimums and 'truth-in-sentencing' provisions that require offenders to serve the vast majority of their sentences have not proven effective.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

We should allow people to return to their jobs and families while they wait for trial, reserving preventive detention only for those cases that pose a true flight or safety risk.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Politics

I am very proud of my heritage, these are my family stories. This is what my brothers and I were told by my mom and my dad, my mamaw and my papaw. This is our lives. And I'm very proud of it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

Donald Trump has created plenty of space for hate. Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump has made one racist remark after another. Donald Trump has put in place racist policies. And we've seen the consequences of it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

I don't understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for the president of the United States just to talk about what we really can't do and shouldn't fight for.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

We need to fix the crisis at the border and a big part of how to do that is we do not play into Donald Trump's hands, but you are playing into Donald Trump's hands.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

We need to call out white supremacy for what it is: domestic terrorism.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 2 months ago Politics

I'm not here to attack other Democrats. I'm here to talk about what I believe in, and as I've tried to make clear, I believe that health care is a basic human right. And I will fight for basic human rights. That means Medicare for all as the best possible way to give us maximum coverage at the lowest possible cost.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 2 months ago Politics

The Donald Trump administrations cruelty runs bone-deep. A Elizabeth Warren administration will not rip families apart to try and score political points, the aim is to scare immigrant communities. ... And so, hes going to... do these raids which is a crime against humanity.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 3 months ago Opinion

I think it's great that we have a lot of new voices in the Democratic Party. They bring new energy, and they bring an excitement to people who feel like they've been sidelined forever, so I'm just glad to see a lot of folks in it. I know it gets bumpy. But I'm glad to see people fighting.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

For decades, the government has helped perpetuate the systemic discrimination that has denied women of color equal opportunities, it's time for the government to try to right those wrongs - and boost our economy in the process.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

Employers tilt the playing field against women of color at every stage of employment.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

We need to do much more to make sure that women of color have a fair shot at opportunity and financial security.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

I could not come to the house of God without speaking about my faith because my faith animates all that I do, i truly do believe in the worth of every single human being.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

When you've got a government, when you've got an economy that does great for those with money and isn't doing great for everyone else, that is corruption, pure and simple. We need to call it out. We need to attack it head on, and we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy and in our country.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Politics

Who is this economy really working for? It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. It's doing great for giant drug companies. It's just not doing great for people who are trying to get a prescription filled, it's doing great for people who want to invest in private prisons, just not for the African-Americans and Latinos whose families are torn apart.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Business

What they are really telling you is they just won't fight for it. Healthcare is a basic right, and I will fight for it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

Who is this economy really working for? It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top. It's doing great for giant drug companies. It's just not doing great for people who are trying to get a prescription filled.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

It's doing great for a thinner and thinner slice at the top, when you've got a government ; when you've got an economy that does great for those with money and isn't doing great for everyone else, that is corruption pure and simple. We need to call it out. We need to attack it head on. And we need to make structural change in our government, in our economy, and in our country.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

I do, we are a democracy, and the way a democracy is supposed to work is the will of the people matters.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 3 months ago Top News

He has created a crisis that has taken our country to the brink of war, he has not made us safer. He has made the United States more at risk. He's made the Middle East more dangerous. He has made the entire world a more dangerous place.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

Foreign policy by tweet is not working for us.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

I really want to underscore.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 4 months ago Politics

A foreign government attacked our 2016 elections to support Trump, Trump welcomed that help, and Trump obstructed the investigation. Now, he said he'd do it all over again. It's time to impeach Donald Trump.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 4 months ago Politics

[ Mitch McConnell ] doesn't want us to consider the mountain of evidence against the President, that is wrong. Mitch McConnell -RSB- and Mitch McConnell -RSB- colleagues have moved to protect the President instead of defending the Constitution.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 4 months ago Top News

Some Democrats in Washington believe the only changes we can get are tweaks and nudges. If they dream at all, they dream small, some say if we'd all just calm down, the Republicans will come to their senses. But our country is in a time of crisis. The time for small ideas is over.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 4 months ago US News

But our country is in a crisis. The time for small ideas is over.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Politics

Im heartsick and praying for the victims and their loved one, eleven people should not have been murdered today. How many lives will it take before Congress acts to end this crisis?

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Latest Headlines

We have...an increasingly monopolistic society where you have a handful of very large corporations having much too much power over consumers.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 4 months ago Tech

They're trying to overturn Roe v. Wade. It's wrong. And we are going to fight back.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

Yes, thats my plan.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 5 months ago Politics

Congress can simply not look the other way. There is no political convenience exception to the Constitution of the United States of America.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

I just think it is highly unethical for the President's personal lawyer to go meet with officials from foreign government to see if they can influence somehow the upcoming presidential election, we've had enough of that and Rudy Giuliani should just back off.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Top News

Today's big tech companies have too much power—over our economy, our society, & our democracy. They've bulldozed competition, used our private info for profit, hurt small businesses & stifled innovation. It's time to #BreakUpBigTech.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Business

I introduced an opioid bill yesterday with Congressman Cummings from Baltimore and so part of it is to be able to go there and talk about that. Hope it's a good place to talk about it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

We took an oath not to try to protect Donald Trump. We took an oath to protect and serve the Constitution of the United States of America, and the way we do that is we begin impeachment proceedings now against this president.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Politics

If any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 5 months ago Top News

He serves the whole thing up to the United States Congress and says in effect, if there's going to be any accountability, that accountability has to come from the Congress, and the tool that we are given for that accountability is the impeachment process. This is not about politics ; this is about principle.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution, if any other human being in this country had done what's documented in the Mueller report, they would be arrested and put in jail.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

Mueller put the next step in the hands of Congress :' Congress has authority to prohibit a President's corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice, the correct process for exercising that authority is impeachment.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 5 months ago Politics

A decade ago, there were zero major solar power projects on public lands. Today, the Bureau of Land Management has approved 11,000 megawatts of renewable wind, solar, and geothermal projects?, but to make a real dent in the problem, we're going to need a whole lot more.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Environment

Joe Biden needs to give an answer.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Politics

Bad decisions in Washington have consistently favored the interests of multinational corporations and big business lobbyists over the interests of family farmers, mergers mean that farmers have fewer and fewer choices for buying and selling, while vertical integration has meant that big agribusinesses face less competition throughout the chain and thus capture more and more of the profits.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Politics

Mergers mean that farmers have fewer and fewer choices for buying and selling, while vertical integration has meant that big agribusinesses face less competition throughout the chain and thus capture more and more of the profits.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Politics

The man in the White House is not the cause of what's broken, he's just the latest -- and most extreme -- symptom of what's gone wrong in America.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 6 months ago US News

It's expensive to be poor, we need a strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that cracks down on payday lenders ... And we need postal banking so people in every community in America have easy and convenient access to basic banking products.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 6 months ago Top News

Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was 50 years old. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren had never worked outside the home. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was truly terrified.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

That is corruption right at the heart of this government, how it could even be legal, that Goldman Sachs could offer a pre-bribe to somebody like Gary Cohn ?

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

I'd have stayed and done this.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

We need structural change, thats why Im proposing an annual tax on the wealth of the richest Americans.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Opinion

Black families have had a much steeper hill to climb - and we need systemic, structural changes to address that.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Politics

In the wealthiest country on the planet, access to affordable and high-quality child care and early education should be a right, not a privilege reserved for the rich.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Politics

I'm tired of a government that works for a thin slice at the top and nobody else, it's pretty straightforward to me, not much fancier than that.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

These credible and troubling allegations from Dr. Vanessa Tyson and Meredith Watson make it clear that Lieutenant Governor Fairfax should resign. My heart goes out to these brave women and their families.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

I'm not a tribal citizen, and I should have been more mindful.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

I can't go back, but I am sorry for furthering confusion on tribal sovereignty and tribal citizenship and harm that resulted.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I don't believe the country should be heading to socialism, i think she believes in programs that will lead to a level of socialism in America.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

We need a healthy economy, and we shouldn't be embarrassed about our system.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

These racist images are deeply disturbing. Hatred and discrimination have no place in our country and must not be tolerated, especially from our leaders – Republican or Democrat. Northam must resign.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

President Donald Trump won't even pay the people of Puerto Rico the courtesy of acknowledging the deaths of the people they love, now that President Donald Trump's caught in this fight to try to find funding to be able to build a monument to hate on the southern border of the United States, President Donald Trump looks over to Puerto Rico to see if President Donald Trump can take away unspent dollars that were designated for relief efforts.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

If accountability means anything, Brock Long should take responsibility for Brock Long failures. Brock Long should resign as head of FEMA, and if Brock Long isn't willing to do that, Brock Long should be fired.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Money that comes to Puerto Rico should be used only here in Puerto Rico, it should be used to rebuild Puerto Rico. It should not be used to pay a bunch of Wall Street speculators while they try to cut services for the people of Puerto Rico.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

( Trump) announced that only a handful of people had died as a result of the hurricanes and, of course, congratulated President Donald Trump on that.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

First, change the law to create a path to real, comprehensive debt relief for disaster-stricken places like Puerto Rico.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

This is going to be a grass-roots campaign, i'm here to ask every one of you to be a part of this, anything you can do : Volunteer, take a sign, pitch in five bucks, any part of it.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I think this is a moment for all of the Democratic candidates as they come into the race to say : In a Democratic primary, we are going to link arms and we're going to grass-roots funding, no to the billionaires.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

I don't think New York financiers ought to be running campaigns that are funded by billionaires, whether it goes through super PACs or their own money that they're spending.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 9 months ago Politics

Corruption is poisoning our democracy.

– Elizabeth Warren

Found on CNN 9 months ago Top News

We need to end the fiction that our domestic and foreign policies are somehow separate and recognize that policies that undermine working families in this country also erode America's strength in the world, in other words, it's time to create a foreign policy that works for all Americans, not just the rich and powerful.

– Elizabeth Warren