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" I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people. "

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" I am going to help show the American people that they too cannot trust him, that this is a man that does not live up to his promises, and this is a man who cheated students in the so-called Trump University. "

" 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. "

" I'm accustomed to being harassed. "

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

" 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 had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?' "

" We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you. "

" I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal. "

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

" There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk. "

" It's unusual for elected officials to step outside of the box. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city. "

" 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! "

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

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

" Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats. "

" I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anybody. "

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

" 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. "