Elizabeth Warren 2011

Then Harvard Law professor and consumer advocate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren, center, talked with supporters at the J & M Diner in Framingham, Mass., Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011, as she began campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Scott Brown. In Nov. 2012, Warren defeated Brown and she is now the senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

It was August 2011 when a little known consumer advocate and Harvard Law School professor began crisscrossing Massachusetts as she eyed a potential run to become the next U.S. senator from the commonwealth. At the time, the field of Democratic contenders looking to dethrone the popular Republican underdog Senator Scott Brown, but in the end, only one emerged.

Elizabeth Warren, now the Democratic senior senator of the Bay State, sent a letter to supporters on Wednesday marking the anniversary by doubling down on the statements she made when her campaign was in its infancy.

"At one of my first stops at a home in Andover, Massachusetts, someone asked me a question about building a future. I responded by saying 'nobody got rich on his own.' Somebody else recorded my answer and stuck it up on YouTube a few weeks later," Warren wrote in her letter. "Today, that little video has been seen more than a million times! I'm still amazed by that."

In 2012, that quote became a major point of contention between Republicans and Democrats not just in Warren's Senate race, but in the presidential race as Barack Obama made a similar statement. While Brown stumped at an Eastern Mass. 7-11 to paint Warren as anti-business, GOP Presidential nominee Mitt Romney took Obama to task at a Roxbury truck repair company.

And just as Warren defended her sentiment in 2012, she did the same on Wednesday, encouraging people to watch the video again.

"I still feel passionately about what I said back then, and I feel even more passionately about it as I see what's happening in Washington," Warren wrote. "Big oil companies -- some of the most profitable companies on the planet -- are still guzzling down billions of dollars in subsidies, while Head Start and Meals on Wheels funding are cut in sequestration. Millionaires and billionaires still don't pay their fair share in taxes, but student loans continue to increase and the policy of the federal government is now to profit off our young people getting a higher education.

"In other words, the game is still rigged to make the rich and powerful even more rich and powerful. And that means we've got more work to do to help make sure the next kid can get ahead and the kid after that and the kid after that."

Since defeating Brown in November and heading to Washington in January, Warren has made some of the points she emphasized during the grueling 2012 campaign a matter of focus.

In Senate Banking Committee hearings, Warren frequently takes aim at officials tasked with keeping the country's financial industry on the straight and narrow. In the Senate, she has used her voice to push for financial aid reforms to provide relief for college students and more recently called on the nation to drop a decades-old practice that bans sexually active gay men from ever donating blood.

In regards to federal student loan interest rates, which Warren suggests be locked at the same 0.75 percent rate the Federal Reserve grants to banks, she's repeatedly affirmed her position in support of such a sharp cut in the rates.

"I don't think we outta be making profits off the backs of our kids while they're trying to get an education," Warren said during a recent visit to Barnes Municipal Airport in Westfield. "We've got to bring down the cost of college... and we've got to concentrate on $1 trillion in outstanding student loan debt. The United States government should not be making a profit off the backs of our kids."

Another campaign talking point which has since become a bill sponsored by the Cambridge resident relates to her push to reinstate the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, to better distinguish what types of investment activities commercial banks and investment banks can engage in based on their designation.

She was recently joined by Democratic Sen. Edward Markey, who won a special election to replace longtime Sen. John Kerry, solidifying the Democratic Party's stronghold over the entire Congressional Delegation from Massachusetts.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren renews promise to voters on anniversary of first statewide campaign tour