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" I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though. "
Maxine Waters
Millennials
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Comfortable
" 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. "
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" I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal. "
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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. "
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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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" Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it. "
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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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" 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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Faith
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" Be who you are, do what you do and let us get on with discussing the real issues of this country. "
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Who
" We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line. "
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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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" I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do. "
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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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Street
Me
Years
" My spirit tells me I cannot be silent. "
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Me
Silent
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" 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! "
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Community
Career
Never
" 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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" 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. "
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" I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes. "
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Hard
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" I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative. "
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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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Country
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