Elizabeth Warren in 2012 Democratic National Convention speeches

On Corporations: People feel like the system is rigged, because it is

People feel like the system is rigged against them. And here's the painful part: they're right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in subsidies. Billionaires pay lower tax rates than their secretaries. Wall Street CEOs--the same ones who wrecked our economy and destroyed millions of jobs--still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them.

Anyone here have a problem with that? Well I do.

Source: 2012 Democratic National Convention speech Sep 5, 2012

On Corporations: Government regulation makes capitalism work

We started to take children out of factories and put them in schools. We began to give meaning to the word consumer protection by making food and medicine safe, and we gave the little guys a better chance to compete by preventing the big guys from rigging the markets. We turned adversity into progress because that's what we do.

No, corporations are not people. People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They cry, they dance. They live, they love, and they die, and that matters. That matters because we do not run this country for corporations. We run it for people.

Source: Speech at 2012 Democratic National Convention Sep 5, 2012

On Families & Children: I grew up in a family on the ragged edge of the middle class

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edge of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house. My three brothers all served in the military. One was career. The second worked a good union job in construction. The third started a small business.

Me, I was waiting tables at 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools and taught elementary school. I have a wonderful husband, two great children, and three beautiful grandchildren. And I'm grateful, down to my toes, for every opportunity that America gave me. This is a great country. I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class; that allowed millions of children to rise from poverty and establish secure lives. An America in which each generation built something solid so that the next generation could build something better.

Source: 2012 Democratic National Convention speech Sep 5, 2012

On Social Security: Social Security & Medicare allow seniors dignity

I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class that allowed millions of children to rise from poverty and establish secure lives, an America that created.

Social Security and Medicare so that seniors could live with dignity, an America in which each generation built something solid so the next generation could build something better, but now, for many years, our middle-class has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered.

Source: Speech at 2012 Democratic National Convention Sep 5, 2012

The above quotations are from Speeches at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte NC, Sept. 4-6, 2012. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Elizabeth Warren. Click here for Elizabeth Warren on all issues.
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