Maxine Waters famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If sequestration takes place, thatâ€™s going to be a great setback. We donâ€™t need to be having something like sequestration thatâ€™s going to cause these job losses â€” over 170 million jobs that could be lost,
-- Maxine Waters

#Jobs #Loss #Needs
On Immigration policy and reform [Republicans] are on the wrong side of the track. ... They would have you believe that if they get into office, they are going to make sure that they are going to get rid of everyone in our society who was not born in America.
-- Maxine Waters

#Believe #America #Track
This liberal is all about socializing- umm I mean...
-- Maxine Waters

#Mean
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.
-- Maxine Waters

#Thinking #Doors #Mad
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.
-- Maxine Waters

#Heart #Winning #Thinking
The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations.
-- Maxine Waters

#Character #Responsibility #America
Many other cities could go the way that Los Angeles went last night unless the president is willing to step in and take some strong action in terms of letting people know that he cares about this issue.
-- Maxine Waters

#Strong #Night #Cities
I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.
-- Maxine Waters

#Boys #White #Car
The shouting, the overrunning of the Capitol, the sneaking in of Tea Party participants into the basement of the Capitol, the name-calling, the spitting, all of that.... The Tea Party emerges as not only outrageous, but they have turned up the volume in ways that even Code Pink have not been able to do.
-- Maxine Waters

#Party #Names #Tea
You cannot be successful and continue to be a victim.
-- Maxine Waters

#Success #Successful #Being Successful
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

#Real #War #Color
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city
-- Maxine Waters

#Cities #Mayors #Resources
I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.
-- Maxine Waters

#Mother #Abortion #March
If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.
-- Maxine Waters

#Crazy #Stupid #People
Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal will be about socializing...uh, um...Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies.
-- Maxine Waters

#Running #Government #Dumb
I've been in this struggle for many years now. I understand racism. I understand that there are a lot of people in this country who don't care about the problems of the inner city. We have to fight every day that we get up for every little thing that we get. And so I keep struggling.
-- Maxine Waters

#Country #Struggle #Fighting
I am not afraid of anybody. Â This is a tough game. Â You can't be intimidated. Â You can't be frightened. Â And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell.
-- Maxine Waters

#Party #Games #Tea
We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines.
-- Maxine Waters

#Outstanding #Macs #Crisis
Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. Â And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Â Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. Â And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.
-- Maxine Waters

#Fighting #Thinking #Color
It's time for the bully pulpit of the White House to bring the gangstas in, put them around the table and let them know that if they don't come up with loan modifications and keep people in their homes that they've worked so hard for, we're gonna tax them out of business.
-- Maxine Waters

#Home #Gangsta #White
Riot is the voice of the unheard.
-- Maxine Waters

#Voice #Riot #Unheard
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.
-- Maxine Waters

#Nice #Anger #Want

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