I grew up in a family that nearly lost everything, but I ended up in the United States Senate because I grew up in an America that invested in kids like me and built a real future for us.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the importance of family support and societal investment in children's futures.
Elizabeth Warren reflects on her upbringing in a family that faced significant hardships but emphasizes that it was the investments made by society in education and opportunities that allowed her to rise and succeed. She attributes her success in part to the supportive environment provided by America and the belief in nurturing children's potential, suggesting that collective efforts are crucial for individual advancement.
In practice
During a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of educational support.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.
The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.
Growing up in the rural south, my family didn't look like our neighbors, and we didn't have much. There were times that were tough, but we had each other, and we had the opportunity to do anything, to be anything, as long as we were willing to work for it.
The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.
How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.
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