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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.

How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd, and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.

I have been an organizer and then activist and a legislator, all of that. But then there's this big gap after I advanced in Congress and ended up as the ranking member of financial services committee. It took me into the financial services issues and Wall Street and Dodd Frank. And it took me away from the things that I did years ago.

I think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.

I'd like to say to women everywhere: don't allow these right-wing talking heads, these dishonorable people, to intimidate you or scare you.

Everyone has a part to play. We have the power. You can do it.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to do good public policy in the best interest of all the people.

Women are prepared to run for office. They're prepared to show up. Oh yeah, women have big roles to play, and they have stepped up to the plate already.

I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

Why is it that Michael Flynn, who evidently has a great relationship with Putin, who has received payments for so-called speeches and who's spent a lot of time in Russia and was accused of talking about sanctions, he lied about it, and he got caught?

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.

I could not remove myself from this debate about Trump. I could not abide his indecency. I could not live with the way he treated other people.

As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.