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
We're not fair-weathered friends. We will be with you to the end.
The taking of private property for private use, in my estimation, is unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's not to be tolerated. This is not a partisan issue.
How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
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.
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.
They are already working on the articles of impeachment. They know where they are going. No, they are not going to allow any censure motion. They do not care ... what evidence is presented by the White House or anybody else.
The way I see it is they came to his house, uninvited, ... They had not only the force of the embassy but the Marines with them. They made it clear that he had to go now or he would be killed.
The urban agenda, from my point of view, is what we are going to all help make it. I see myself as helping the White House forge an urban agenda.
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.
This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,
I don't think anybody that knows me would think that I'm so understanding. Most people say I'm too pushy, I'm too aggressive, I'm too assertive, I'm too confrontational. That I ask for too much. I've never been considered patient, or even conciliatory in most instances. But I don't think anything happens in a short period of time. Particularly when you're talking about dealing with Congress and government. It just doesn't happen.