Maxine Waters Quotes
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Russia is not our friend.
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Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.
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How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
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That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.
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I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.
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The president is a liar. Dick Cheney, the chief architect of the Big Lie, is not only a liar, he is a thief.
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I am extremely angry, and I have no problems with saying that. You know, there comes a time when it’s all right to be angry. That’s how I feel. And I’m sure that the people that you see, no matter what you think about what they’re doing, and no matter how we would not like to see that kind of violence, you can understand the anger.
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This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
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A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.
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Some people see me as someone who makes other people look bad... I often get a feeling most people don't know who I am, or have a clue, and I live with that. I don't try to prove anything by talking.
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Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.
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There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.
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I don't think it works to just be mad at them - Maxine Waters out ranting and kicking down the doors. It would be so easy to dismiss you and marginalize you.
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I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.
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Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me.
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Why is it that Michael Flynn, who evidently has a great relationship with Putin, who has received payments for so-called speeches and who's spent a lot of time in Russia and was accused of talking about sanctions, he lied about it, and he got caught?
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I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you.
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Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.
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I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.
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We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.
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There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.
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I'm accustomed to being harassed.