Elizabeth Warren

I would like to see something that actually forces the hand of local and State police agencies to actually engage with the campus police agencies.

The shutdown should not create moral hazard by letting the bank's executives escape accountability.

The shutdown should not require a dime of taxpayer money.

So, I think--and then the question is, does that change the calculus on whether or not we need to find devices in the law for holding the executives of the biggest financial institutions accountable if they threaten to wreck the economy…

The question is, realistically, how do you get there.

the taxpayers should not be put in the position of having to choose between either watching the economy implode or having to bail out these big financial institutions

Does it make sense for us to lift the ban without some contingency plan in place if prices should jump?

The ban on selling crude oil has been in place for more than four decades, so it is a big deal.

Big oil may not like that, but the Massachusetts voters did not send me here to work for them.

What happens to those jobs if we lift this ban?

So gas prices is the second question I want to ask about.

The question is, how do we draw lines to ensure the safety of the system?

The $50 billion banks generally pose less risk than a $1 trillion bank or a $2 trillion bank.

I think that if there are multiple institutions of that size that are failing at the same time, it is usually an indication that there is broader weakness in the financial system.

if it goes badly, it is the American people who will end up paying.

We are dealing with the very practical issue of trying to keep the financial system from melting down.

If a big company can commit major fraud again and again and again, and each time they just pay a fine and promise to be good and move on, I am not sure what incentive there is for them to stop breaking the law.

We need the Federal Government to back us up.

I guarantee we can say that it is becoming less and less and less affordable every year.

a U.S. Senator from the State of Massachusetts

Instead of kicking these big time bad actors out of the Medicare program or putting CEOs in jail, the Government settles with a fine.

Companies should not be allowed to get away with fines and a promise that they will do better in the future and a wrist slap.

I think what you just described is the schools have no skin in the game, that whether they do a good job or a bad job, as long as they can skirt past their accreditors, they're going to be just fine.

If we reduce regulatory costs for college, those savings must be passed on to our students.

We've got a problem with outdated laws, loopholes in the laws, and that's how we end up with these two different standards.