Elizabeth Warren: ‘I Am Not Running’ for President

GUTHRIE: “Let me make sure that we underscore this and maybe bold it and put it in all caps. Because I have to tell you, I have read every single interview you’ve done in the last year where people ask you, ‘Will you run for president?’ And it had seemed that you were hedging a little bit in the past. I don’t hear that now, are you unequivocally and categorically saying, ‘I’m not running for president in 2016’?”
WARREN: “I’m not running. I’m not running. You know, though, what I am doing is I’m out fighting for a set of issues that are powerfully important and it’s a big part of why I wrote this book.”
GUTHRIE: “You care so much about these issues, your supporters say, ‘Well, then you’re the person – you’re the perfect person to go in and fight for them and take them on.’ They’re afraid that Hillary Clinton won’t give voice to these issues that you care about.”
WARREN: “I see it as right this minute, we’ve got a lot of places that we need to be fighting on core issues. Like I said, student loans. I’ve got a student loan bill. It is obscene that the United States government is making a profit off the backs of our kids. And I’ll tell you something, that’s really personal for me. I’m somebody, my daddy ended up as a janitor. My mom worked a minimum wage job at Sears. The only way I got to go to college is because of a $50-a-semester commuter college. And that opened a million opportunities for me. It’s something I talk about in the book and what it created for me. So, I ended up in the United States Senate. I want the same kinds of opportunities for our kids today. I want a world where every kid gets a fighting chance.”