We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the ethical issue of profiting from students' financial struggles.
Elizabeth Warren emphasizes the moral responsibility of educational institutions to prioritize the wellbeing of students over financial gain, especially in light of the burdens of student debt. She criticizes the system that allows banks to profit from these debts while students grapple with overwhelming financial challenges, suggesting that this is fundamentally unjust.
In practice
In a speech about educational reform, to highlight the importance of addressing student debt.
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?
If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.
I feel it is now my duty to speak to young women, to encourage them to have careers and, particularly, careers in science.
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.
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