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" I'm accustomed to being harassed. "
Maxine Waters
Harassed
Accustomed
Being
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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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Comfortable
" 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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" 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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Talking
" Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats. "
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Believe
Most
" I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. "
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Black
Woman
Cannot
" I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative. "
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Service
Working
Late
" I'm going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do. "
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Mind
Going
" My Millennials, 'stay woke'. "
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Millennials
Stay
Woke
" 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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Why
Smoke
Important
" We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. "
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Outstanding
Mac
Crisis
" 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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Trying
Working Hard
Hard
" My spirit tells me I cannot be silent. "
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Spirit
Me
Silent
" I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though. "
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Millennials
Aspirations
Any
" I want to be the kind of elected official who not only pays attention but who acts on behalf of people - just average people. Fancy lobbyists get to tell their story, but the average person doesn't. "
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People
Want
Story
" 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. "
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Life
Know
You
" We use language that has been designed to keep order, and to keep people in line. "
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Keep
Use
People
" 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. "
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Donald Trump
Long
Clean
" 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. "
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Time
Doing
Long
" I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anybody. "
Maxine Waters
Thought
Cannot
Bill
" 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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Why
Great
Relationship
" Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. "
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Color
Policy
People
" If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. "
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Going
Korea
North Korea
" 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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Truth
Faith
Language
" 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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I Am
Live
Know
" 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. "
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Women
Movement
Great
" I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do. "
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People
Think
Heart
" 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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Stand Up
Up
America
" 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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Think
You
Doors
" 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. "
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People
I Am
Fight