Maxine Waters Quotes

You're trying to jump on the bandwagon at the last minute when you should have been there a long time ago. - Maxine Waters

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. - Maxine Waters

You have your local city government and your community redevelopment agencies who will tell you that they want to take private property because they want to do away with blight, they want to upgrade the neighborhood... I don't buy that. - Maxine Waters

We're not fair-weathered friends. We will be with you to the end. - Maxine Waters

We're building a growing movement against the war in Iraq that will give people who feel uncomfortable about the war a place to share their concerns and discuss and work through a solution -- should it be immediate withdrawal or an exit strategy. We want to build a consensus that we want to get out. - Maxine Waters

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. - Maxine Waters

This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty. - Maxine Waters

This cowboy capitalism must stop. - Maxine Waters

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. - Maxine Waters

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