"It's better to fight because if you don't fight, you can't win. Besides, even when you don't win, you can change the game."
"I'm still very connected to my family, to the world I grew up in. I understand what it means to be afraid that you can't pay a doctor's bill. Or to have to make the choice between buying a band uniform for a seventh-grader and making the insurance payment on time. That will never leave me. It was how I lived until I was well into my adult years."
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Source: Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.44, Metropolitan Books
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