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" 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. "

Maxine Waters

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Street

Years

" We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line. "

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" We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. "

" I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes. "

" 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. "

Maxine Waters

Some People

Think

" Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already. "

" 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. "

" Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. "

" My spirit tells me I cannot be silent. "

Maxine Waters

Spirit

Silent

" I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative. "

" It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated. "

" I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it. "

" This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it. "

" I'm going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do. "

" 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. "

Maxine Waters

Stand Up

America

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though. "

" 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. "

" 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. "