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Quotes by Maxine Waters

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.
– Maxine Waters
How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
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
I don't understand people who say, Aren't you disappointed with the Democrats, or Clinton? I knew that Clinton's campaign was geared toward bringing whites back into the Democratic Party.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
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
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
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.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– Maxine Waters
That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
– Maxine Waters
The mayor's race is a very sad event for me. I feel no connection. I have no passion. And I don't feel compelled to do anything.
– Maxine Waters
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.
– 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
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
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