Elizabeth Warren

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea, God Bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and paid forward for the next kid who comes along.

It is easy when you are successful to think that you did it all by yourself and to forget that you didn't. You got here because a lot of things broke your way. You were lucky enough to be born into a family that could afford to take care of you well.

Unfair servicing practices can worsen a family's already difficult economic situation, and the injury echoes from the family to the community and ultimately throughout the economy.

Truly successful lives are about family.

There are lots of families who - who make irresponsible purchases. There are also a lot of families who have debt on credit cards because they use those credit cards to pay for medical bills.

It is not good not to have health insurance; that leaves the family very vulnerable.

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

You have to remember: what are incomes to banks are outgoes to families.

I know what I am in Washington to do: I'm here to fight for hardworking families.

Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged edges 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.