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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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" 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. "

Maxine Waters

Politics

Difference

Politicians

" We moan and groan all the time about a lack of involvement of young people. But they have taught me a lot about what moves them. "

" We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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! "

" My Millennials, 'stay woke'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language. "

" 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? "

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

" Russia is not our friend. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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