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“It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.”
“I'm going to continue to speak my mind in the way that I do.”
“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 think that people should do what their heart and soul tells them to do.”
“I have been adopted by the millennials, and I'm enjoying every minute of it! I'm learning a new language.”
“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.”
“If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.”
“I'm so proud of this connection that I've made with these young people.”
“I am talking about strategies that were developed, working with the Trump campaign. I really do believe that much of what you saw coming out of Trump's mouth was a play from Putin's playbook.”
“I think the Democrats' role is to be vocal.”
“How does he support Clinton's urban agenda? He doesn't know what it is.”
“I am one who believes in the power of the people. I am inspired when I see people hit the streets, who challenge their elected officials, and are willing to stand up and fight. I encourage it.”
“My spirit tells me I cannot be silent.”
“I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined.”
“I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.”
“When I first experienced the millennial response to me, I had come out of a classified briefing, and I told the group of media individuals who were there that I didn't think James Comey had any credibility, and I threw up my hands and walked away - that went viral.”
“Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.”
“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.”
“The constant drip drop of fraudulent activities coming out of Wells Fargo is absolutely outrageous.”
“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.”