Elizabeth Warren

I have also urged President Biden to take executive action to lower drug prices for tens of millions of American families by allowing the generic production of products like insulin and EpiPens.

The world needs more vaccine.

Clearly, we need our Central American countries to be doing better economically so that folks are more likely to stay in Central America.

I fully agree with that; that is an appropriate thing to do.

This is about making our tax system fair, and about raising the revenue that we need to create opportunity for every kid in America.

So I think the conclusion we can draw is that strengthening third-party information reporting would obviously help people file their taxes more easily and more accurately.

I am introducing a bill with mandatory funding, so that the funding lasts year by year by year, so that the IRS can boost tax enforcement for wealthy individuals and for giant corporations who are some of the biggest tax cheats.

The top 1 percent failed to report, I have heard, more than a fifth of their income--you are saying maybe as much as half--and more than a third of all unpaid Federal income taxes.

If we are truly committed to equality among genders, then we will make sure that every parent has access to affordable, available, high quality childcare.

I think the answer to that is yes and yes. But we need the money, because we need to put it into investment.

Look, this is a fight I am ready to have. And I just feel like just today, Jeff Bezos has given us a new round of ammunition in this fight, we need to jump in and go.

So, here’s the part to remember. And that is, who is out of step here? When we talk about childcare, it’s Democrats, Republicans, independents, all of us need childcare.

You know, I think of it this way. Look at all that has happened in the last year. You talked about the pandemic, a racial reckoning, an armed insurrection. And we got a new president. We passed an historic Rescue Plan.

It is striking that a private company were the only ones who had the power to stop the threat of Donald Trump. Not the FBI, not the security agencies who we pay a lot of tax money to.

We need to break up corporations of that size. We need to break them up so we go get more competition in business and we need to break them up because they exercise too much political power.

Do you know who is out of step? Is the elected Republican officials in Washington.

You want people to go to work? Then invest in childcare, invest in early childhood education, so that all of our mamas and daddies and all of our babies have real opportunity in this country.

So what I talk about in the book is the personal stories, why policy is so personal, how it touches every one of us.

What had been impossible becomes hard, but maybe possible. That`s the moment to fight with everything you have got.

It broke my heart, and it made me deep-down furious. ... He didn’t need a plan. He didn’t have to have a strategy to deal with this.

I think Americans have had it with the Republicans on taxes, the tax cuts that went to the billionaires, and now just understanding this system is not working. It`s a rigged system that works for those at the top.

Look, the debate, yes, it is important, but it is important because, as Democrats, we need to deliver. We made promises in `18. We made promises in `20. We said, you put us in control in the Senate, you put us in control in the House, you…

Tax reform is just about choices. We can let our roads and bridges crumble, not upgrade broadband, make no investments in child care or getting lead out of drinking water, and let rich people pay tax rates at half the rate as everyone…

We can’t lose hope, because the only way they make change is we get back up tomorrow and we get back in the fight. We persist.

Tax reform is just about choices. We can let our roads and bridges crumble, not upgrade broadband, make no investments in child care, or getting lead out of drinking water, and let rich people keep paying taxes at about half the rate as…