Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

My Millennials, 'stay woke'.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters

I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.