Maxine Waters Quotes

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Maxine Waters

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 15, 1938

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.

Maxine Waters

Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.

Maxine Waters

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters

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

Maxine Waters

As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.

Maxine Waters

I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.

Maxine Waters

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.

Maxine Waters