124 Quotes by Maxine Waters

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.