Credit cards are like snakes: Handle 'em long enough, and one will bite you.
From Elizabeth Warren
I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.
You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.
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.
I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.
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.
I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages of scripture is, 'in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.' Matthew 25:40.
Big corporations have money and power to make sure every rule breaks their way; people have voices and votes to push back.
I pay for homeowner's insurance, I pay for car insurance, I pay for health insurance.
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