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" 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. "

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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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. "

" Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" My Millennials, 'stay woke'. "

" 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. "

" I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. "

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

" 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. "

" Be who you are, do what you do and let us get on with discussing the real issues of this country. "

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

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