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" 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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Maxine Waters

Heart

Win

Think

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My Millennials, 'stay woke'. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Maxine Waters

Say

People

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

" My spirit tells me I cannot be silent. "

Maxine Waters

Spirit

Silent

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I've seen a lot of poverty - coming up as a young child, lost hopes and dreams and people that never had a chance to have a decent quality of life. I believe we can do a lot greater than that. "

" This country cannot tolerate the fact that someone worked with Russia to undermine our democracy. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me. "

" I believe that Trump is a danger. I believe that he wants to tighten and build up his relationship to Russia for whatever reasons. "

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

" I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education. "

" Russia is not our friend. "