A biography for Maxine Watershasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.”
“There are people who love and appreciate this country, but they don't talk about it that way. Now is the time to talk.”
“That's what mayors do. They lobby Congress to provide resources for their city.”
“I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anybody.”
“A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.”
“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.”
“I have been working hard trying to implement Dodd-Frank reforms. We went through a terrible crisis in 2008. Many people lost their homes.”