Maria Cantwell Quotes

Maria Cantwell — American Politician born on October 13, 1958,

Maria Elaine Cantwell is the junior United States Senator from the state of Washington, serving since 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1987 to 1993 and then in the United States House of Representatives from Washington's 1st congressional district from 1993 to 1995, after which she worked as an executive for RealNetworks. She is Washington's second female senator, after Patty Murray. She served as Chairwoman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship from 2014 to 2015... (wikipedia)

It appears that Wall Street is not acting as a force for economic expansion, providing access to capital for companies that make things. Rather, it seems, Wall Street is using government bailouts to lever up.

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

Let's embrace productive capitalism, not casino capitalism, by restoring transparency and true competition in the commodities markets.

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

We will not rest until the wooden stake is punched through the heart of the Enron lawsuit against us.

Maria Cantwell Quotes

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