Overheard in the Senate:

Elizabeth Warren

“We have become a nation of where those living in poverty brutally fight each other for a handful of crumbs tossed from the tables of the wealthy. And that, my friends, is the goddam truth.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts)

Overheard in Sen. Warren's Office:

 

 

Elizabeth Warren

“The Republicans who have shut the government down as a way of battling the Affordable Care Act are as useful to this country as a truckload of used tampons. And I mean that with all my heart.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts)

Overheard in Washington, D.C.:

Elizabeth Warren

"I had no idea making so many men in the financial industry and Congress look so goddam stupid would make my nether regions tingle quite so much. I should have been doing this years ago. It almost leaves me breathless. 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who serves on the Senate's Aging, Banking, Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees

Overheard in Washington, D.C.:

Sen. Elizabeth Warren

"Too  big to fail has become too big for trial. That's right. I said it. You rat bastards thought you'd hate me as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? Wait'll you assholes see what you are in for now that I'm a senator! I am a walking hard-on with tits."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), addressing bank regulators this week and asking for one example from any year when regulators
actually prosecuted Wall Street bank for
violating federal law. None of the regulators present provided any examples.