Elizabeth Warren
By Alexandra Brodsky • @azbrodsky • 9 years ago

Quote of the Day: “The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system”

Earlier this week, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said that he’s not sure Elizabeth Warren — U.S. Senator, long-time corporate law professor at Harvard, chair of the panel that oversaw the 2008 bank bailouts — “fully understands the global banking system.”

Warren’s response was perfect:

The problem is not that I don’t understand the global banking system. The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system and I understand how they make their money. And that’s what they don’t like about me.

I don’t think that Jamie Dimon understands how Elizabeth Warren works.

 

Washington, DC

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com. During her four years at the site, she wrote about gender violence, reproductive justice, and education equity and ran the site's book review column. She is now a Skadden Fellow at the National Women's Law Center and also serves as the Board Chair of Know Your IX, a national student-led movement to end gender violence, which she co-founded and previously co-directed. Alexandra has written for publications including the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, and the Nation, and she is the co-editor of The Feminist Utopia Project: 57 Visions of a Wildly Better Future. She has spoken about violence against women and reproductive justice at campuses across the country and on MSNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, ESPN, and NPR.

Alexandra Brodsky was a senior editor at Feministing.com.

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