Words matter. These are the best Maxine Waters Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.
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.
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.
I’ve seen a lot of poverty – coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that.
I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.
Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I’m getting the attention from the young people on social media. It’s been missing.
I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that’s who they are. That’s not me.
I’m going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do.
I had to ask my grandchildren, ‘What does it mean? I threw shade?’
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color.
The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.
We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.
When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and I told the group of media individuals who were there that I didn’t think James Comey had any credibility, and I threw up my hands and walked away – that went viral.
I’m a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.
My Millennials, ‘stay woke’.
I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.
This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for Fiorina, who he basically said, ‘Who would vote for you? Look at her face.’
I’m so proud of this connection that I’ve made with these young people.
As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.
The women’s movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women’s Conference or the National Women’s Conference for Carter.
If I never do anything else in this career as a member of Congress, I’m gonna make somebody pay for what they’ve done to my community and to my people!
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.
I don’t have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don’t find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren’t interested in those stories.
I am talking about strategies that were developed, working with the Trump campaign. I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump’s mouth was a play from Putin’s playbook.
I don’t have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I’d do it, though.
I have a right to my anger, and I don’t want anybody telling me I shouldn’t be, that it’s not nice to be, and that something’s wrong with me because I get angry.
I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons.
It’s very important that people who are feeling the need to do something… get activated.
I’m accustomed to being harassed.
We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line.
This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy.
I was working at the telephone company in the late ’80s as a service representative.
Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.
How does he support Clinton’s urban agenda? He doesn’t know what it is.
I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.
Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.
I think the Democrats’ role is to be vocal.
We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.
I’m not running for anything but my own seat.
That’s what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.
Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.
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.
This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We’ve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
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.
My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.
We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I’m not going to go anywhere.
I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O’Reilly or anybody.
Priebus has been trying to clean up for Donald Trump for far too long. When he was making outrageous statements, when he was basically lying.