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  • I'm Elizabeth Warren and this is my first Democratic Convention.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • AUDIENCE: Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren!

  • Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren! Warren!

  • WARREN: Stop! Ok, now. Enough! I never thought I'd run for the Senate, and I sure never dreamed

  • I would be the warm-up act for President Bill Clinton.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • He is an amazing man who had the good sense to marry one of the coolest women on this

  • planet.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I -- I want to give a special shout out to the Massachusetts delegation.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I am counting on you to help me win and to help President Obama win. I am here tonight

  • to talk about hard working people, people who get up early, stay up late, cook dinner

  • and help out with homework, people who can be counted on to help their kids, their parents,

  • their neighbors, and a lady down the street whose car broke down, people who work their

  • hearts out but are up against a hard truth: the game is rigged against them.

  • AUDIENCE MEMBER: Right!

  • WARREN: It wasn't always this way. Like a lot of you, I grew up in a family on the ragged

  • edges of the middle class. My daddy sold carpeting and ended up as a maintenance man. After he

  • had a heart attack, my mom worked the phones at Sears so we could hang on to our house.

  • All three of my brothers served in the military. One was career...

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • ...the second a good union job in construction...

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • ...and the third started a small business. Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married

  • at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I have a wonderful husband, two great children, and three beautiful grandchildren, and I am

  • grateful down to my toes for every opportunity that America gave me. This is a great country.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I grew up in an America that invested in its kids and built a strong middle class that

  • allowed millions of children to rise from poverty and establish secure lives, an America

  • that created Social Security and Medicare so that seniors could live with dignity, an

  • America...

  • AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah!

  • WARREN: ...in which each generation built something solid so the next generation could

  • build something better.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • But now, for many years, our middle-class has been chipped, squeezed, and hammered.

  • Talk to the construction worker I met from Malden, Massachusetts who went nine months

  • without finding work. Talk to the head of a manufacturing company in Franklin, trying

  • to protect jobs, but worried about rising costs, talk to the student in Worcester who

  • worked hard to finish his degree, and now he is drowning in debt. Their fight is my

  • fight, and it's Barack Obama's fight too.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • WARREN: That's right. Yes.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part: they're

  • right. The system is rigged. Look around. Oil companies guzzle down billions in profits.

  • Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries...

  • AUDIENCE MEMBER: No!

  • WARREN: ...and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones that wrecked our economy and destroyed

  • millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like

  • we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I do, too. I talked to small business owners all across Massachusetts, and not one of them,

  • not one, made big bucks from the risky bets that brought down our economy. I talked to

  • nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters, people who bust their tails every day, and

  • not one of them, not one, stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their

  • fair share of taxes.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • These folks don't resent that somebody else made more money. We're Americans. We celebrate

  • success. We just don't want the game to be rigged. We fought to level the playing field

  • before. About a century ago when corrosive greed threatened our economy and our way of

  • life, the American people came together under the leadership of Teddy Roosevelt and other

  • Progressives to bring our nation back from the brink. We started to take children out

  • of factories and put them in schools.

  • [APPLAUSE]

  • We began to give meaning to the word consumer protection by making food and medicine safe,

  • and we gave the little guys a better chance to compete by preventing the big guys from

  • rigging the markets. We turned adversity into progress because that's what we do.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to

  • fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real

  • shot, then no one -- no one -- can stop us.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • President Obama gets it because he spent his life fighting for the middle-class, and now

  • he's fighting to level that playing field, because we know the economy doesn't grow from

  • the top down but from the middle-class out and the bottom up. That's how we create jobs

  • and reduce the debt.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • And Mitt Romney [chuckles] he wants to give tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires,

  • but for middle-class families who are hanging on by their fingernails, his plan will hammer

  • them with a new tax hike of up to $2,000.

  • [BOOS]

  • Mitt Romney wants to give billions in breaks to big corporations, but he and Paul Ryan

  • would pulverize financial reform, voucherize [sic] Medicare and vaporize Obamacare.

  • [CHEERS AND BOOS]

  • The Republican vision is clear -- "I got mine. The rest of you are on your own."

  • Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure, they do. They believe in government

  • to help themselves and their powerful friends.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • After all, Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people.

  • [BOOS]

  • No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • People have hearts. They have kids. They get jobs. They get sick. They cry, they dance.

  • They live, they love, and they die, and that matters. That matters.

  • [SUSTAINED APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • That matters -- that matters because we do not run this country for corporations. We

  • run it for people, and that's why we need Barack Obama.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • After the financial crisis, President Obama knew that we had to clean up Wall Street.

  • For years families have been tricked by credit cards, fooled by student loans, and cheated

  • on mortgages. I had an idea for a consumer financial protection agency to stop the rip

  • offs.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • Now, the big banks sure didn't like it, and they marshaled one of the biggest lobbying

  • forces on earth to destroy the agency before it ever saw the light of day. American families

  • did not have an army of lobbyists on our side. What we had was a president, President Obama

  • leading the way.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • And when the lobbyists were closing in for the kill, Barack Obama squared his shoulders,

  • planted his feet and stood firm, and that's how we won.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • By the way, just a few weeks ago that little agency caught one of the biggest credit card

  • companies cheating its customers and made it give people back every penny it took plus

  • millions of dollars in fines.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • That's what happens when you have a president on the side of the middle class. President

  • Obama believes in a level playing field. He believes in a country where nobody gets a

  • free ride or a golden parachute, a country where anyone who has a great idea and rolls

  • up their sleeves has a chance to build a business, and anyone who works hard can build some security

  • and raise a family. President Obama believes in a country where billionaires pay their

  • taxes just like their secretaries do.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • And I can't believe I have to say this in 2012, a country where women get equal pay

  • for equal work.

  • [SUSTAINED APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • He believes in a country where everyone is held accountable, where no one can steal your

  • purse on main street or your pension on Wall Street.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • President Obama believes in a country where we invest in education, in roads and bridges,

  • in science, and in the future so we can create new opportunities so the next kid can make

  • it big and the kid after that and the kid after that. That's what President Obama believes.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less

  • debt. We root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • I grew up in the Methodist church and taught Sunday school, and one of my favorite passages

  • of scripture is, "in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my

  • brethren, ye have done it unto me," Matthew 25:40.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • The passage teaches about God in each of us, that we are bound to each other and we are

  • called to act, not to sit, not to wait, but to act -- all of us together. Senator Ted

  • Kennedy understood that call.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • Four years ago he addressed our convention for the last time. He said, "we have never

  • lost our belief that we are all called to a better country and a newer world". Generation

  • after generation, Americans have answered that call, and now we are called again. We

  • are called to restore opportunity for every American. We are called to give America's

  • working families a fighting chance, we are called to build something solid so the next

  • generation can build something better.

  • [APPLAUSE AND CHEERS]

  • So let me ask you -- let me ask you America: are you ready to answer this call?

  • AUDIENCE: Yes!

  • WARREN: Are you ready to fight for good jobs and a strong middle class? Are you ready to

  • work for a level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans

  • that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is

  • ready. I'm ready. You're ready.

  • [CHEERS AND SUSTAINED APPLAUSE]

  • Thank you. God Bless America.

I'm Elizabeth Warren and this is my first Democratic Convention.

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