Maxine Waters Quotes

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Maxine Waters

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 15, 1938

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

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.

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

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.

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

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.

Maxine Waters

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.'

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

I'm so proud of this connection that I've made with these young people.

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

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

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

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?

Maxine Waters

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

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

I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.

Maxine Waters