American - Politician | August 15, 1938 -
The women's movement was just coming into being, and I got involved with Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug and all these great women. We then got involved with Carter, who was running for president, and we created the first International Women's Conference or the National Women's Conference for Carter.
Maxine Waters
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I want our millennials and our young people to do what they started out doing with meet-ups, to talk about what is going on, and spread the education.
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.
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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.
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We have suffered discrimination. We have suffered isolation and undermining. But we stand up for America, oftentimes when others who think they are more patriotic, who say they are more patriotic, do not.
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I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.
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I know some people like to follow the tradition, and that's who they are. That's not me.
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If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.
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Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me.
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That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.
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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.
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