Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters
Maxine Moore Watersis the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. As an...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth15 August 1938
CountryUnited States of America
It's all designed to keep people very much intimidated and not challenging the power. And I found the same old tactics worked in Congress too.
You try to manipulate the process. In Sacramento, I was very good at it, at getting legislation passed. And when I came to Washington I thought that I was going to approach it differently. That the conventional wisdom was such that you had to not be confrontational, not challenge too much, but understand that there was great tradition.
Clinton never said, "My Administration is going to pour resources into the poor community." But I really do believe that Bill Clinton is more liberal than oftentimes his politics. He's practical. But I think his heart is decent.
I had a wonderful experience recently in anticipation of the second Rodney King verdict where I decided to do a letter to the community about how I really felt. It's times such as that, that I feel that I'm connecting. And there are other times I'm shocked by what I see and what I discover. And when I'm shocked by it, I think, God, I'm losing it, that I don't really understand what's going on out there.
If you ask a young man in South-Central about the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties, he can't tell you. As you evaluate that whole discussion about what must be done to bring whites back into the Democratic Party, you can see why there is no urban agenda.
How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
We have governors all over the country, we have deficits, people are unhappy, ... I think the Californians spoke, but Americans will be speaking about the economic situation all over the country, it's not about Democrat or Republican.
There is reason to show up, if none other than to continue to tell you how unfair the process is.
The power to impeach a president should not be casually used to remove a president and overturn an election simply because we don't like him or his policies. The constitution is on trial, and we hope that we will uphold the constitution and the civil rights of everybody involved.
We're not fair-weathered friends. We will be with you to the end.
The only word that comes to mind is hypocrite,
He didn't have a weapon. He didn't try to run away. He did nothing that could cause the police to bang his head against that police car.
He changed the way African Americans are viewed in this country
I will reconsider my endorsement for Mr. Gore if he takes this political position, ... I do not think that this should be handled as a political matter. It is not a custody case, it is an immigration case. Our immigration laws are absolutely clear.