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" 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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" 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. "

Maxine Waters

Why

Smoke

Important

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

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

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

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

" 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 think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do. "

" 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. "

" How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is. "

Maxine Waters

Know

Agenda

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

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

" 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 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 saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics. "

" 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 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. "

Maxine Waters

Street

Years

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

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

" I'm not running for anything but my own seat. "

" 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? "

" 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

" If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm accustomed to being harassed. "

" The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous. "

" 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. "