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
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.
I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical. They have made some decisions about what it takes to win.
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.
The public is saying get this thing over so we can focus on America's agenda for progress,
I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,
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 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.
Every member of this committee should be offended by the ... wild spin that was just put on by Mr. Lindsey in attempting to somehow send a message to Monica Lewinsky that she has been undermined by the president of the United States and thus set her up to be angry at the president in case she's called as a witness, ... We're no fools.
I don't care that it is not signed by a senator.
I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.
one of the most un-American things that one can imagine.
Many of us are guilty of having allowed Tom Bradley to do whatever he has done without really challenging him, without making sense out of what was going on in City Hall. And so now we are confronted with a situation where we have two candidates and we don't know who they are really and what they care about.